Java 5 end of life - is it OK for us to move to Java 6?

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Jacek Furmankiewicz

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Oct 30, 2009, 1:45:54 PM10/30/09
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Asking the community, based on your current projects.

Is it OK to bump up the min required Java version to 6 for the next
build?
Or are some of you still using it with JDK 5?

Alexandre Navarro

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Oct 30, 2009, 5:26:50 PM10/30/09
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Ok for me.

For instance, in my department, all Swing GUI are already migrated from
1.4 or 1.5 to 1.6.

You can notably remove dependency of the old Swing Worker.

Alexandre

Fred Swartz

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Oct 30, 2009, 5:47:19 PM10/30/09
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OK to move to Java 6 for me too. -- Fred

Jacek Furmankiewicz

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Oct 30, 2009, 9:07:34 PM10/30/09
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Yes, that would be the first thing to do...and add support for Swing
tray icons, etc.

On Oct 30, 5:26 pm, Alexandre Navarro <alexandre.j.nava...@gmail.com>
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Jason S

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Nov 6, 2009, 10:08:14 AM11/6/09
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> Is it OK to bump up the min required Java version to 6 for the next build?
> Or are some of you still using it with JDK 5?

I use JDK6, but in the back of my mind something says there should
still be an alternate JDK5 release if at all possible.

Jacek Furmankiewicz

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Nov 6, 2009, 10:25:12 AM11/6/09
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Well 0.3 would be that...1.0 already moved to JDK 6 and started using
the SwingWorker that is part of JDK 6, instead of importing it as a
3rd party library

Alexandre Navarro

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Nov 6, 2009, 3:09:16 PM11/6/09
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Just for information, SwingX released a new version this week (1.6)
which can be only use with jdk 1.6.

I think it is right time to migrate.

Alexandre
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