Re: JDK 1.5 or JDK 1.6

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:47:47 GMT
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Pep wrote:

Hi, is JDK 1.6 considered stable ..


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Thanks. By upgrading I meant is there much mileage in moving our code
base to JDK 1.6.


I still do not understand why you would want to
'move' to 1.6, rather than ensure the application
will run under either 1.5, *or* 1.6.

But if your application runs just fine* under 1.5,
and you only intend to support 'a version',
why 'move' it to 1.6 at all?
...

So it's really a question of the benefits in doing this.


I can see very few, if the app. is only advertised to run
under one version, and the customers have that version.

...If, for
instance, 1.6 doesnot resolve a whole host of bugs ..


* Bugs that affect you app.? What bugs?

...or similar benefits


Like what? The only things I can think of besides
bug fixes are..
- something linke a newer, better, packing mechanism
(probably thinking pack200 in Java 1.5), or
- new functionality - new classes, methods, API's.
What kind of 'benefits' are you expecting or hoping for?

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