[news.eclipse.technology.ohf] Re: Java 1.4 vs 1.5

[Jesse Kuhnert <jkuhnert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd say that would be true, if you were planning on going to production 
with this code in about a month or two, but something tells me that's 
not really a requirement of this project.

The trends in a lot of the other open source projects (hibernate, 
eclipse, tapestry, etc..etc..) seem to be everyone either currently 
supporting or actively supporting varying levels of 1.5.

The last and final sort of measurement for jdk stability might be the 
number of bug postings found, with the greater the number being a good 
thing generally(i think)...1.4 has about 5000 or so and 1.5 has about 
3000..Sounds like it'll be plenty stable by the time anyone goes into 
production with this.

(P.S. And annotations too I hope? It would be nice to eliminate more and 
more xml/configuration files, not that you have any defined yet, but in 
case you do. heh)

I think the only thing anyone could ever potentially question going to 
production with for server stuff would be windows. ;)

jesse

Grahame Grieve wrote:
> An interesting question arose and I'd like to hear
> from anyone with an opinion. I'd like to use generics,
> but this requires v1.5, and it has been put to me that
> it's still to early to write code using v1.5 that is
> intended for server production deployment.