[xwiki-dev] [VOTE] Switch to JDK 1.5

[Stéphane Laurière]

Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think it's time to officially decide if we want to standardize on 1.5. 
> Some reasons we may want to do this:
> 
> * JDK 1.4 is old. 1.5 is mainstream. 1.6 is about to be released.
> * Most libraries have now switched to 1.5 and it's going to be real hard 
> to stay on 1.4 if we want to get bug fixes/new features from the 
> libraries we use
> * Radu needs to use some google jars for his GSOC and they seem to 
> require JDK 1.5
> * We already require 1.5 I believe (although it's a light dependency) 
> and have been requiring 1.5 for now several months (> 5 months) and we 
> haven't heard complaints from users about this
> 
> The vote is about officially dropping support for 1.4 and standardizing 
> on 1.5 (and thus allowing us to use the new features of the language too 
> like generics, annotations, etc).

+1

Stéphane