[IdPv3] Targeting Java 7

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/25/11 2:57 AM, "Kaspar Brand" <kaspar.brand at switch.ch> wrote:
>
>Supported by whom is what it really boils down to, yes. With OpenJDK
>on Linux, it's the distribution vendors, not Oracle. Red Hat e.g. will
>have to support Java 6 in RHEL 6 until November 2017
>(cf. https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/). It seems
>relatively unlikely to me that they would go from Java 6 to Java 7
>sometime during the RHEL 6 lifecycle.

The fact is though, they did go from the gcj mess to OpenJDK 6 in the RHEL
5 lifecycle. I realize that's an outlier, but I raised this same point in
private.

I think we have to know the answer.

-- Scott