Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-geronimo-activemq-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 17635 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2006 16:59:51 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 15 Nov 2006 16:59:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 55217 invoked by uid 500); 15 Nov 2006 17:00:00 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-geronimo-activemq-dev-archive@geronimo.apache.org Received: (qmail 55200 invoked by uid 500); 15 Nov 2006 17:00:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact activemq-dev-help@geronimo.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: activemq-dev@geronimo.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list activemq-dev@geronimo.apache.org Received: (qmail 55191 invoked by uid 99); 15 Nov 2006 17:00:00 -0000 Received: from herse.apache.org (HELO herse.apache.org) (140.211.11.133) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:00:00 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (herse.apache.org: domain of bruce.snyder@gmail.com designates 66.249.92.175 as permitted sender) Received: from [66.249.92.175] (HELO ug-out-1314.google.com) (66.249.92.175) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:59:47 -0800 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so221550ugc for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:59:25 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Pu948gd2lMaFnF5j81ENrZbj3hyJ4hnOOlR8OtfF7K+UGAXBas7OBwpINrTH9aUszurhFQ2Qy29Wo0stDQ8ldjCrP6FRgVVodPXA8OhGQUlGHITMfrP74mAelyTt9zomxFSdVB+D2ctULWXf93GodMj4y72uapZq55um0noF7tk= Received: by 10.82.123.16 with SMTP id v16mr326264buc.1163609965027; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:59:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.120.3 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:59:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7b3355cb0611150859g458e0806o9ec5457ea57fef0d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:59:24 -0700 From: "Bruce Snyder" To: activemq-dev@geronimo.apache.org Subject: Re: Switching to ActiveMQ 4.2 to Java 5??? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 11/15/06, Hiram Chirino wrote: > Hi folks, > > How do you guys feel about switching the minimum run time requirement > for ActiveMQ 4.2 to be Java 5?? I'm itching to do this since Java 5 > has a much better set of concurrent implementation. > > We can keep the 4.1.x branch alive as the Java 1.4 compatible version. > Also I have a feeling that once we switch to Java 5, someone will > figure out how to use retrotranslator to make our Java 5 binaries also > run on Java 1.4. But I doubt anybody will make any efforts to look > into that until we actually jump to Java 5. > > So what do you say? Shall we switch ?? Maybe this message should be CC'd to the activemq-user list to see how users feel about such a change. Keeping a 4.1.x branch alive might wind up being a lot of work WRT backporting fixes to the trunk. Bruce -- perl -e 'print unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E