[evla-sw-discuss] Java 7 on EVLA

[Daniel Lyons]

On 10/24/2012 12:53 PM, Bryan Butler wrote:
> not quite sure what you mean by "the EVLA will be switching to Java 7
> soon," kevin?
>
> we've talked about some applications moving to it, but had no (formal)
> discussion of mandating that all of them have to...

Marie has been going around scaring us into testing our stuff under Java 
7 in anticipation of a very near-term upgrade. There are security issues 
with Java 6, which is reaching end-of-life in February, and it is 
desired (by whom I'm not sure) that we sidestep the backporting delay 
this way.

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Daniel Lyons
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