[IdPv3] Targeting Java 7

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/24/11 8:06 AM, "Kaspar Brand" <kaspar.brand at switch.ch> wrote:
>
>Looking at it from a sysadmin's/deployer's perspective, I'm not sure if
>too much emphasis should be put on the EOL date for Oracle's Java 6
>runtime environment.

It should if the result is that the software becomes unsupported. If other
vendors are going to continue to maintain it, then it's not unsupported.

>Of particular interest are the enterprise flavors of those Linux
>distributions, I think, and my current assessment leads me to believe
>that by mid-2012, most (if not all) enterprise Linux distributions in
>widespread use at that time will still have [OpenJDK] Java 6 as their
>default. This also means that vendors like Red Hat, SUSE or Ubuntu will
>provide support for Java 6 runtime environments for quite a few years to
>come - including backported fixes from Java 7, if needed.

That's pretty much the question. I suggested that privately, and there was
some speculation that since Red Hat shipped OpenJDK 1.6 mid-release that
they might do the same for this version. I don't know what the other
vendors did.

-- Scott