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Pffttt....still on 5 here. Working to change that.

• akerro 8y ago
  >Working to change that. How are you planning to move from 5 to 8/11? Our migration from 5/6 to 8 was really painful.
  • gizmo385 8y ago
    I thought the whole point of a backwards compatible language like Java was that transitions should be relatively easy to make?
    • toyg 8y ago
      Backwards-compatible only means you can run old code on new VMs, with the correct target flags; it doesn't say anything about mixing new and old code.
    • akerro 8y ago
      A lot of stuff like ant/maven, other build tools, plugins, libraries broke due to hardening in JVM that puts a lot of more restrictions on reflection.
• ptx 8y ago
  On the bright side, Java 5 is a huge improvement over earlier versions – at least you have generics, and you don't have to manually create iterator objects every time you write a loop! (Java ME was stuck on 1.3 until its death.)