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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 20:40:36 -0500
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Subject: Re: JDK 1.6 or JDK 1.7
From: Shanti Suresh <shanti@umich.edu>
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Hi Chris,

Perfect!  Thanks so much.

                         -Shanti


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Christopher Schultz <
chris@christopherschultz.net> wrote:

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> Shanti,
>
> On 12/6/12 2:03 PM, Shanti Suresh wrote:
> > I am trying to decide whether to run Tomcat 7.0.33 on JDK 1.6 or
> > JDK 1.7. Tomcat-7 release notes say:
> >
> > Tomcat 7.0 is designed to run on Java SE 6 and later
> >
> > But I remember reading on this list about some issues folks are
> > having with JDK 1.7.  Appreciate your advice.
>
> The first few releases of Java 1.7 had some things that broke a few
> things badly. I believe those have all been corrected by now.
>
> I've been using Oracle Java 1.7.0 64-bit JVM for a while (6 months?)
> in development and I have had no problems at all. We have a non-Tomcat
> server (Mule ESB) running on OpenJDK 1.7 in another development
> environment and that seems to be very stable as well.
>
> As always, test everything. I dunno how others do it, but I generally
> run with a new major version of Java in my own, personal development
> environment for about 6 months before we put it into our general
> development environments. Then we run in development for a few
> test/release cycles before we push it out to demo/production.
>
> We do the same thing with Tomcat, actually. We're just about to go
> into production with Tomcat 7 and probably a few months later, we'll
> upgrade to Java 1.7 as well.
>
> Just in time for Tomcat 8. ;)
>
> Hope that helps,
> - -chris
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    Shanti Suresh
    Application Systems Analyst Lead
    LSA Development
    500 S. State Street
    Ann Arbor MI 48109-1382
    Office: 734-763-4807
    shanti@umich.edu

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