Re: JDK 1.5 or JDK 1.6
"Pep" <pepaltavista@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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["Should I upgrade to 1.6?"]
Well for instance moving from 1.4 to 1.5 provided better string
formatting.
Yes, but if you never use the string formatting, then you won't
actually take advantage of that particular benefit. Most of the people
here at my company don't bother with the new "printf" thing (I'm assuming
that's what you're referring to).
Myself I am hoping for none really.
There are lots changes. Whether or not they are relevant to you, we'd
need a crystal ball (or access to your source code, and a lot of spare
time on our hands) to guess.
I just have a pair of
anal colleagues that will argue the cup is half empty just for the
hell of it. As senior developer I have the responsibility to decide
what our IT strategy is with this project. So if nobody is jumping up
from the community saying something like it really is a" must" due to
serious security bugs in 1.5 or similar then I have no intention of
moving up.
This will never happen. If there are serious security bugs in a given
version, they will update THAT version. Notice that there exists 1.6,
1.6.0_01b6, 1.6.0_02b5, 1.6.0_02b6, etc. These where the fixes to "serious
security bug" will show up. Not in 1.7.
- Oliver