[JXTA discuss] Re: [JXTA dev] Java Standard Edition 5.0 *Only* for September 2005 Release?

Very good ideas. Should probably standardize first on Java 5.0 Update 2 
because of MacOSX (there will be some fixes into Update 3 / 4 that will 
take time to go to OSX).

+1

Fabrice DI MEGLIO


Mike [bondolo] Duigou wrote:

> For quite a while the JXTA Java Standard Edition releases have used a 
> policy of supporting the the two most recent Java Release versions. 
> This means that current JXTA releases support J2SE 1.4.2 and JDK 5.0
>
> However, since JDK 5.0 has been out for over a year now and is 
> available on most platforms,since JDK 6.0 is still quite a ways off 
> and  because there will be no JDK 5.1 release, we've been wondering if 
> now is an appropriate time for dropping support for Java 2 Standard 
> Edition 1.4.2 by JXTA.
>
> The current plan is to remove the J2SE 1.4.2 requirement for CVS on 
> August 16th (Shebakia code freeze day) and the JXTA Java first release 
> requiring Java Standard Edition JDK 5.0 would be the Shebakia which is 
> planned for September 15th, 2005.
>
> The first release which would make use of JDK 5.0 features would 
> likely be the December 2005 release. The most likely initial features 
> to be used would a limited use of generics (Ever notice all those 
> lovely javadocs for Collections used within JXTA? They are all 
> intentional hints as to how the structures can be converted to 
> generics) and likely some use of the JSR-166 concurrency utilities to 
> replace current JXTA utility code.
>
> Thoughts, opinions, insights, flames?
>
>
> Mike
> (for the JXTA Java Standard Edition release team)
>
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