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From: "Caldarale, Charles R" <Chuck.Caldarale@unisys.com>
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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 19:49:37 -0600
Subject: RE: [taglibs] Move to pre-req Java 1.6 for Locale services?
Thread-Topic: [taglibs] Move to pre-req Java 1.6 for Locale services?
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> From: Jeremy Boynes [mailto:jeremy@boynes.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Boynes
> Subject: [taglibs] Move to pre-req Java 1.6 for Locale services?

> As most users are likely to be running on 1.6

As the traffic on the users list shows, this is clearly not the case.

> Sun's 1.5 is generally end-of-lifed

Unfortunately, that's not the case.  1.5 is supported for another 15 years =
or so - if you buy the so-called business version, which many corporate use=
rs have.

> I'd like to propose solving this with the 1.6 APIs and making it a=20
> pre-requisite. Any issue with this?

I think it might have a serious impact on Tomcat deployment in corporate en=
vironments.

 - Chuck


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