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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:19:14 -0600
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Subject: Re: Java level prerequsite upgrade?
From: Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Marshall Schor <msa@schor.com> wrote:
> The UIMA developers would like to be able to start using Java 6 language
> features; of course this would require users to be running this level or later.
>
> Currently, we require only Java 5 or later.
>
> Java 5 from various vendors is either past end-of-life or approaching it
> (meaning no updates, unless you have some special contracts).
>
> See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html or
> http://www.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/
>
> If we started requiring Java 6 or later, would this be an issue for you?

ClearTK is considering bumping our required version to Java 7 in the
near future (https://code.google.com/p/cleartk/issues/detail?id=354)
so we're definitely okay with UIMA requiring Java 6.

Steve