Re: [cssparser-developers] JDK Compatibility

[Alan K. <al...@tr...>]

D&J Gredler wrote:
> I want to close bug 1337724 (we're no longer compatible with JDK 1.2), 
> which was opened 3 years ago. However, before doing so I'd like to 
> clarify which JDK version the project requires. It seems to me that 
> Java 5 should be the minimum, since that's when the DOM Level 3 APIs 
> were first added to Java. What does everyone think?
I'm of two minds.

At the Twin Cities Software Symposium in Minneapolis two weeks ago, 
almost a majority of the Java developers in attendance were still stuck 
on JDK 1.4 due to application server compatibility constraints.  This is 
often because of political issues, where a business stubbornly refuses 
to upgrade beyond some ancient version of Oracle AS, WebSphere, or 
whatever because it costs so freaking much, but won't consider migrating 
to something newer and cheaper.

On the other hand, Sun's going to stop supporting 1.4 when 7.0 comes 
out, presumably sometime around this summer.

I'm leaning toward 5.0 as the minimum, myself.