Norman Richards asks why people aren't moving to Java 5. One word: WebSphere. Most corporate environments (the ones I know and/or work with, at least) have not moved beyond 5.1 yet. I'm not even sure that there already exists a JDK 5.0-based WebSphere version.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:18 PM It does not, not even in a beta version. It is absolutely incredible, but that's the way that it is, and thank god we have an app server that runs on 1.4.2...
April 21st, 2008 at 10:18 PM Have you considered upgrading from WebSphere to JBoss? It's a better app server. It's much cheaper. And, you will never be limited to 3 ear old technologies. Of course, I'm not biased in any way in this recommendation. :) :)
April 21st, 2008 at 10:18 PM If Tor is in the same kind of position as we are with our customers its really not his choice. It's not our application that depends on websphere - I mean for our development we use Orion but several of our big customers rely on WebSphere and have business logic and processes built ontop of Content Manager, Records Manager et al. the whole IBM stack. There isn't any flexibility to change and what customer would want to take that kind of risk to their established system anyway? If we didnt support 1.4 and WebSphere the customer would simply buy his software from somebody else not change his application servers to match our products requirements.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:18 PM It's not announced officially, but WebSphere 6.1 is expected very soon and it will be Java 5. IBM released their Java 5 SDK in Deember on most platforms as the first step.