JRE 1.3.1 Support - Needed?

Post by **david.gilbert** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:46 pm

JRE 1.3.1 completed Sun's End Of Life process on 11 December 2006, and I'm considering dropping JFreeChart's 1.3.1 support (so that future releases AFTER JFreeChart 1.0.6 will require JRE 1.4.2 or later). Any objections?

uvoigt · Post by **uvoigt** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:13 am

That's ok for me. I am using 1.5 for all my projects.

scar · Post by **scar** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:18 pm

No objections, drop the 1.3.1 support.

glindholm · Post by **glindholm** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:48 pm

We (finally) switched 1.5 about 3 months ago, so we're good with dropping 1.3.

Sourcemaker · Post by **Sourcemaker** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:03 pm

Well, I think you can drop the 1.3.1 support.
So when future releases will require JRE 1.4.2 or later
it would be nice when there will be a version available
with improved performance.

airon · Post by **airon** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:59 am

We are using 1.5 for more than a year. I vote to drop the 1.3 support.

develop · Post by **develop** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:55 pm

we also use 1.5 for more than a year now. i don't think we need 1.3 support any more.

joolz · Post by **joolz** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:41 am

Fine with me (using 1.6)

mhilpert · Post by **mhilpert** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:43 pm

Yup, same here. Using 1.6 since last year. I would vote for using 1.5 as it introduced several nice things.

jwenting · Post by **jwenting** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:44 pm

Using 1.5 now, might move to 1.6 at some point (though there's no technical need to at the moment, 1.5 compiled classes run fine on both 1.5 and 1.6 runtimes).

People still using 1.3 and requiring JFreeChart have a lot of stable versions to choose from.

Post by **Taqua** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:59 pm

Suddenly I feel very old with my insistence to stick with JDK 1.2.2. I never found anything that is good enough to go to a newer JDK. (Except the performance, and that comes with the runtime that executes the code, not the classes that are available at compile time.)

However, going up to JDK 1.4.2 would be good for me - a lot of people out there stick with JDK 1.4 (especially in server environments these old JDKs will stay around for a while; desktop applications usually can choose more freely what JDK they want to use).

Have fun,
said Thomas

thingol · Post by **thingol** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:27 pm

Several installations of IBM WebSphere use the version 5.01 (that uses IBM JDK 1.3.1, that's not end-of-lifed. )
Could you wait a bit more? (I know that the particular instance of IBM WebSphere in my client will be upgraded to 6.1, that uses IBM JDK 5.0, in a couple of years...)

jwenting · Post by **jwenting** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:36 pm

thingol wrote:I know that the particular instance of IBM WebSphere in my client will be upgraded to 6.1, that uses IBM JDK 5.0, in a couple of years...

Anything with that long a timespan in IT is by definition wishful thinking!
It just means "we have no plans but we'll say something about the possible distant future to keep people on their toes, they won't be around anyway when we don't come around to doing it".

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JRE 1.3.1 Support - Needed?

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