Hi
I have no particular problem about moving to 1.6, apart from a lot
of @Override warning tedium.
However so long as EMF claims to support 1.5, I try to test my low
level Modeling Project against 1.5.
Half of my tests still pass on 1.5, so EMF is clearly still good to
go for 1.5. It's the platform that causes a surprise.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 02/09/2013 16:34, David M Williams
wrote:
> So it seems that
the Platform no longer
supports Java 5.
Yes and no. As a whole, such for
whole
Eclipse SDK, even Kepler (If not Juno) said "Java 6 required",
although there were always some bundles (and combination of
bundles) that
supported lower VMs.
> Is this intentional and an unannounced policy change?
Probably not announced well. It
has
been discussed at status meetings, and various bugzillas, that
some previous
"1.4" or "1.5" bundles were moving to "1.5"
or "1.6", but I am not sure there is yet a comprehensive list
of those that have. (Other than looking in the manifests
themselves).
I think it's been assumed "no one
cares about Java 1.5 any longer" ... so, if anyone does (i.e.
you
have requirements or customers with requirements for 1.5), then
I suggest
you open a bug on the specific use-case you need to support on
1.5 and
what bundle changes prevent that. I'm sure the committers for
those components
would be willing to re-consider if it impacts adopters.
But, the default assumption for
testing
should be "1.6" ... would be my personal advice.
HTH
From:
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Date:
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Has
Java 5 Platform support been discontinued?
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Hi
Using a recent (post M1) platform I-build some of my unit
tests now fail
with a NoClassDef found for Platform.
Changing the launch configuration to force JVM 6 and the tests
run fine.
So it seems that the Platform no longer supports Java 5.
Is this intentional and an unannounced policy change?
Regards
Ed Willink
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