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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:54:29 -0500
From: Donald Woods <dwoods@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Only Support Java SE 6 with Geronimo 2.2
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OK, given the info from Dan about CXF and JAXB, I withdraw my suggestion 
to only use the JAXB/JAXWS shipped in Java SE 6, which also means there 
is no good reason to only support Java SE 6 for runtime....

So, to summarize:
1) we continue on the path of including a JAXB/JAXWS in the assemblies
2) we will only JEE5 certify on Sun Java SE 6
3) we will continue building with Java SE 5 and not block users from 
using it as their runtime JVM, but we'll recommend that everyone use 
Java SE 6 used for certification


-Donald


Donald Woods wrote:
> The time has come to make the hard decision -
> 
> Do we only build and certify Geronimo 2.2 on the Sun 1.6.0 JDK and drop 
> support for running on Java SE 5?
> 
> Pros:
> - Reduce testing effort to one version of Java
> - Allows us to use the JAXB 2.1, JAX-WS 2.1 and wsgen tools in the JDK, 
> instead of shipping those jars in our assemblies (and removes some more 
> Sun RI from our assemblies)  :-)
> - Keeps us current on the latest Java release
> - All major platforms have a Java SE 6 solution:
>   - Sun provided 1.6.0 for Windows, Solaris, Linux on Intel/AMD
>   - MacOS 10.5.x provides 1.6.0_07
>   - openSUSE 11.0/11.1 users can install Sun 1.6.0_10 from build repos
>   - Ubuntu 7.04 and later users can install Sun 1.6.0 from net repos
>   - Fedora 9/10 comes with OpenJDK 6, but users can install Sun 1.6.0
>   - IBM provides 1.6.0 SR2 for AIX, pLinux, zLinux, zOS, ...
> 
> Cons:
> - Users will have to upgrade to Java SE 6 to run Geronimo 2.2
> - Will require us to maintain the 2.1 branch during 2009 for any users 
> who want to stay on Java SE 5
> 
> I'm for moving to a Java SE 6 only runtime for Geronimo 2.2.
> 
> 
> -Donald
>