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

[Alan Hudson]

On 9/20/2012 9:21 PM, Justin Couch wrote:
> 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.
>
agreed.


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