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From: Roedy Green on 8 Sep 2009 17:14
Even though it is no longer officially supported, JDK/JRE 1.5.0_21 was
just released.
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From: Lew on 8 Sep 2009 23:01
Roedy Green wrote:
> Even though it is no longer officially supported, JDK/JRE 1.5.0_21 was
> just released.

But it is still officially supported.

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From: Roedy Green on 8 Sep 2009 23:08
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:14:59 -0700, Roedy Green
<see_website(a)mindprod.com.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>Even though it is no longer officially supported, JDK/JRE 1.5.0_21 was
>just released.

Oops.
JDK version 1.4 reached its end of life on 2008-10-30, and Sun will no
longer support it. JDK version 1.5 is slated for end of life
2009-10-30. End of life does not mean all copies of JDK version 1.5
will suddenly turn into pumpkins. Apple will still offer its JVM to
download. Sun will still offer it in the archives. It is just that Sun
will no longer fix any bugs in it. To get the bug fixes, you must go
to version 1.6.


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From: Kevin McMurtrie on 12 Sep 2009 08:15
In article <59ida5pc7qb2u48reqjqm6m1k9cirekvof(a)4ax.com>,
Roedy Green <see_website(a)mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

> Even though it is no longer officially supported, JDK/JRE 1.5.0_21 was
> just released.

Enterprise customers (as in buying Sun support) will demand 1.5
maintenance for a while. 1.6 requires source code changes, retuning,
and rediscovery of what bugs will be showing up. Where I work, it
wasn't until last year that public builds of 1.5 were free of
catastrophic bugs with no workarounds. A 1.6 update will have to wait
until business is slow.

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From: Lew on 12 Sep 2009 12:17
Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
> In article <59ida5pc7qb2u48reqjqm6m1k9cirekvof(a)4ax.com>,
> Roedy Green <see_website(a)mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Even though it is no longer officially supported, JDK/JRE 1.5.0_21 was
>> just released.
>
> Enterprise customers (as in buying Sun support) will demand 1.5
> maintenance for a while. 1.6 requires source code changes, retuning,

What code changes?

> and rediscovery of what bugs will be showing up. Where I work, it
> wasn't until last year that public builds of 1.5 were free of
> catastrophic bugs with no workarounds. A 1.6 update will have to wait
> until business is slow.

Google "technical debt". Hopefully your business is too successful ever to be
slow.

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