On 2013-06-27, at 05:45 , Andrew Hastie <andrew@ahastie.net> wrote:
> 2. To say that anything prior to Java7 is "dead" is ridiculous at this point in time, at least in a commercial
environment.In one or two year's time however it may be different. Yes, there may be compelling security reasons to
upgradefrom 6 to 7, but in an existing deployed commercial environment happily running Java 5 or 6, you are only going
toupgrade to Java 7 if there is a very good reason to do so. I can recall numerous examples of a "simple" Java version
upgradebreaking one or more production systems. I've just checked the very latest WebShere offering from IBM (Version
8.5.5)and that still installs Java6 by default.
Stupid question, but in an "existing deployed commercial environment happily running Java 5 or 6", are they going to be
upgradingtheir JDBC more frequently then their JDK? basically, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" applies to their
JDK,won't it apply to there jDBC too?