[sakai2-tcc] 2.6.3 and Java 6

[Noah Botimer]

I think we're talking about requirements, rather than recommendations. The Java 5 JDK is still supported, so should be listed (or not), just the same as before.

A note of forward compatibility is quite fine with proper caveats and instructions about required configuration changes. These are just realities of software that lives a while -- they shouldn't shift the ground unless absolutely necessary, and documentation maintenance should be additive when not correcting errors. It's still Sakai 2.6.

Thanks,
-Noah

On Jul 21, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:

> I partially agree, but Java 5 has been end of life for over 8 months (as of today) and isn't *easily* available the latest OSX release. So these would be the biggest reasons, security fixes and easier availability, to recommend using a new version even on a minor, even if though need to use options. 
> 
> However it should remain compilable with Java 5, at least until 2.8. (No new language features allowed)
> 
> I'd be interested in how many QA's and production instances are on Java 6. Currently University of Michigan is still running Sakai 2.6 on Java 5 because of some unresolved load test issues with Java 6. We hope to revisit these soon and ideally will be on Java 6 in the next few months.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:10 AM, csev <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
> It would seem strange to change the JVM version in a minor release unless there is some strong issue.
> 
> If 2.6.0 recommended Java 1.5 - then absent some overriding concern, 2.6.3 should recommend 1.5 as well.
> 
> /Chuck
> 
> On Jul 21, 2010, at 7:32 AM, Anthony Whyte wrote:
> 
> > Shall we recommend deployers run 2.6.3 in a Java 6 SE JVM?  If so, I'll update the demo start up script in 2.6.x as well as the release notes.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Anth
> >
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