[Building Sakai] JDK 1.5 "end-of-service-life" date is October 30, 2009

[Matthew Jones]

Well, sakai 2.5.3 compiles all fine for me under java 1.6, and I've been
running a sakai 1.5 compiled code our development server under a 1.6 JVM for
the past 6 months with nothing out of the ordinary occurring. The benchmarks
have 1.6 running a certain percentage faster on certain application (I think
for me sakai was starting up a few seconds faster) and the big one was that
it doesn't have the debugging where it can crash the server (under 1.5)
which makes it much better for development. I haven't actively ran a 1.6
compiled sakai under a 1.6 jvm lately though.

I have been using that tomcat workaround mentioned in Steven's post through
for the java_opt
-Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true

This conversion to 1.6 was tracked here without too much activity:
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-10716

I'll try to roll it out tomorrow and see how it looks, but it would probably
be worth having a QA server eventually running 1.6/1.6 to see how it goes as
the posts suggest.

I can volunteer one of the 2.5.x QA's if Pete wants.

-Matthew

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Seth Theriault <slt at columbia.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am not sure what the plans to move Sakai to Java 6 are, but
> this statement is probably worth noting:
>
> "J2SE 5.0 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition
> period. The EOL transition period began April 8th, 2008 and will
> complete October 30th, 2009, when J2SE 5.0 will have reached its
> End of Service Life (EOSL)."
>
> http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp
>
> More info at:
>
> http://java.sun.com/products/archive/eol.policy.html
>
> Seth
>
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