[Source] JDK 6 support and public release ends NOV 2012

[Justin Couch]

On 21.09.2012 07:48, Don Brutzman wrote:

> thanks Terry.  sounds like we should start looking ahead at Xj3D
> migration to Java 7.

Our very long term policy has been to always support the version behind 
the latest. So, Java 6 is what we run on now. We wouldn't move to Java 7 
features until Java 8 is in production. Much of this policy is driven by 
OS/X support, that traditionally lags substantially behind the official 
Oracle (nee Sun) releases. We stayed on Java 5 for years after official 
support for it was ended, so I'm not in favour of this as being a good 
argument to move forward just yet.