Support Forums: Message List - Five years waiting for JRE7: it’s justified? (Part 1) http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Sat, 25 May 2013 02:48:01 -0400 Hi http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63238 Ok that was the thing 

...]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:45:33 -0500 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:45:33 -0500 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:45:33 -0500 Nov 18, 2011 Fauci59 0 Five years waiting for JRE7: it’s justified? (Part 1) http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63238 Wasn't most of it due to the politics of the executive committee?  Specifically Google and Apache bitching about the "field of use" restriction and basically blocking the ratification of SE7?

]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:55:04 -0500 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:55:04 -0500 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:55:04 -0500 Nov 17, 2011 Bill Burke 1 Five years waiting for JRE7: it’s justified? (Part 1) http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63238 Didn't Sun do tons of changes in the updates to Java 6? Many of them were ported back from JDK 7 work.

Everything to do with the Oracle acquisition must have added to the delay as well.

 

]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:19:10 -0500 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:19:10 -0500 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:19:10 -0500 Nov 15, 2011 augustientje bloem 0 Five years waiting for JRE7: it’s justified? (Part 1) http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63238 JRE6 was released in 2006 and five years after a major JRE version was released, during last few years java looked stagnant, and many java developers begin to worry, and this concern was amplified when Oracle purchased Sun.

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