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From: Arne Vajhøj on 6 May 2010 19:48 On 06-05-2010 09:44, David Lamb wrote: > Arne Vajh�j wrote: >> Java 1.6 supports 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 per >> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/install/system-configurations.html >> >> Java 1.5 supports 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 per >> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/system-configurations.html >> >> It seems as if you are OK by targetting Java 1.5! > > For a while -- but isn't 1.5 in end-of-life now? Yes. At least in SUN's free version. But what so? If you only want to users using supported versions of Java to be able to use your applet then you can target 1.6. If you want more than 90% of users to be able to use your applet then you need to target 1.5 (which implies that it will run on 1.6 - and 1.7 when it comes out). Arne
From: Arne Vajhøj on 6 May 2010 19:53
On 06-05-2010 11:16, Lew wrote: > Arne Vajh�j wrote: >>> It seems as if you are OK by targetting Java 1.5! > > David Lamb wrote: >> For a while -- but isn't 1.5 in end-of-life now? > > Officially, and for some time now. > > In reality, it's very widespread and becoming more so as shops finally > come around to upgrading from 1.4. > > Furthermore, targeting Java 5 is not the same as restricting to Java > 5. You don't lose the Java 6 customers by targeting Java 5. > > As to why someone now would upgrade to Java 5 from earlier versions > and not to Java 6, well, you'd have to ask them why they'd do such a > durn-fool thing. On client side I think people are upgrading to latest and greatest. Server side things are a bit more complex due to all types of constraints about what Java EE version is certified with what Java SE version, what Java SE version is certified with what OS version, what app version is certified with what Java EE version and so on. Arne |