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I am great with this decision, since I run on it :). It might be a bit more
difficult with other users (even with the EOL, many are still on 5). I think
that such a change should only be made on a major release... .

Shay

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Bela Ban <belaban@...> wrote:

> I'm going to baseline JGroups 2.9 on Java 6, and 3.0 will probably be
> baselined on Java 7 (if available by then).
>
> There are some good performance gains to be had by not just running on
> Java 6, but also using some of its classes (e.g. Deques, or skiplist
> classes).
>
> Java 5 is EOL, and there is no support fro SUN for it anymore.
>
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Shay Banon wrote:
> I am great with this decision, since I run on it :). It might be a bit 
> more
> difficult with other users (even with the EOL, many are still on 5). I 
> think
> that such a change should only be made on a major release... .

While I understand this, sticking to Java 5 would hamper development of 
JGroups 2.9, especially some performance enhancements I have in mind. I 
think I'm firm on baselining 2.9 on Java 6. Every good party has to end 
some time, and the Java 5 party is over ! :-)

If people want to stay on Java 5, then they have to stay on JGroups 
2.8.0.GA, which will be here for a few years.

Note that JBoss 6 requires Java 6, so folks sticking with Java 5 will 
have a problem no matter what. Don't know about about players (e.g. 
Spring), but I'd assume they're based on Java 6, too.

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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss

+1

On 22 Dec 2009, at 10:01, Bela Ban wrote:

> I'm going to baseline JGroups 2.9 on Java 6, and 3.0 will probably be 
> baselined on Java 7 (if available by then).
> 
> There are some good performance gains to be had by not just running on 
> Java 6, but also using some of its classes (e.g. Deques, or skiplist 
> classes).
> 
> Java 5 is EOL, and there is no support fro SUN for it anymore.
> 
> -- 
> Bela Ban
> Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
> JBoss
> 
> 
> 
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