Thanks for the clarification, I sure do understand all of that - even
though it's also a fact that in corporate wonderland Java 5 is still
the rage (and building with a higher JDK as the target runtime also
has its intricacies).
Yet, a more formal announcement would have been nice and the docs
should be updated to state the new 1.6 requirement prominently.
In fact (parts of) the documentation (e.g.
http://code.google.com/intl/de/webtoolkit/gettingstarted.html) still
mention only Java 5 SKD as requirement.
I suppose this question will continue to come up, as GWT 2.4 adoption
increases - but at least I am clear now :-)
Thanks,
Lars
PS: you may close the mentioned tracker issue (
http://code.google.com/
p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=6790 ) as you see fit.