[ohf-dev] Re: Java Version (was Coding Standards)

[Eishay Smith <eishays@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I also raised the concern about Java 1.5 and app servers. Checking about
Java 1.5 servers, it seems that all major application servers delivered
this year will use Java 1.5. Since we are very new in the area, I'm not
sure we should think too much about legacy servers.
As for Embedded systems I don't know too much. It might be indeed a strong
case. I hope we can have more comments on it.
Maybe we should consult with someone from the eRCP project:
http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-ercp/

Anyway, we should bare in mind that if we declare a plugin to be 1.4
compliment, all dependent plugins and jars it or dependent Plugins use
should be 1.4 compliment too.

Eishay

>
> Java Version
>
> There is 2 important targets where Java 1.5 is not supported: Embedded
> systems and enterprise production application servers. Core packages
> should generally use java 1.4 features only. UI packages are free to
> use Java 5 features.
>
> This is not a hard rule; we have agreed that the H3ET core package(s)
> will use Java 5. But where it's not overly taxing, core packages should
> use Java 1.4.
>
>