[Registry-dev] Initial plan for 0.1 release

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

Is there a way to write code using 1.5 stuff and turn a compiler option to 
generate 1.4 bytecodes??

Sanjiva.

Glen Daniels wrote:
> Hi Asankha, all:
> 
> Asankha C. Perera wrote:
>> We noticed that since we focussed on JDK 1.4 (at least a bit) and 1.5 
>> for the last release, we didn't test on 1.6 which *is* the latest JDK 
>> available. I don't think this is right and was actually proven when 
>> some users tried it on 1.6. Thus its better to let go of 1.4 now, and 
>> focus on 1.5 and 1.6, unless someone really wants it so bad that they 
>> will actually pay us to support it..
>>
>> Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
>>> Only problem with adopting 1.5 is that it means if Synapse/Axis2 are 
>>> to use this then they will also only run on 1.5 :(.
>>>
>>> So unfortunately the decision is tied to whether Axis2/Synapse (and 
>>> hence WSAS/ESB) will continue to support 1.4 or not.
> 
> I agree with Sanjiva - unless Axis and Synapse BOTH move to 1.5, we 
> cannot move the registry to 1.5.  This isn't just a question of WSO2 and 
> our customers, it's one of the Apache user base (if we want to have a 
> hope of wide pickup of our registry APIs).
> 
> We should definitely be testing with 1.6 as well, though. 
> Continuum/Bamboo should help out here.
> 
> --Glen
> 

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