I'm aware of our agreement. Yet in a situation where we are opening and questioning major features 2 weeks before PFD is due, why not to revisit also this one? ;)
FYI - do not worry, the Java EE Common Annotations API spec lead is already working on a release that will have the source and target level set to "1.6".
Marek
On Feb 12, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Sergey Beryozkin <sberyozkin_at_talend.com> wrote:
> On 12/02/13 16:30, Marek Potociar wrote:
>> I have contacted the spec lead of Common Annotations API to release a new version. We'll see how it goes. Note however that Java EE 7 requires Java SE 7.
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> Thanks Marek; we've agreed though to let the implementations that do not necessarily target EE environments implement 2.0 API without forcing them to move to SE 7, so to be honest, and IMHO, it has to be a a consistent decision on behalf of this group to support this case, though I'd obviously appreciate a good will gesture from the spec lead of Common Annotations API -
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> Example, releasing a SE-6 targeted only version would not affect the requirement for EE 7 deployments to have core artifacts built with SE7 and such
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> Cheers, Sergey
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>> Marek
>> On Feb 12, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Sergey Beryozkin<sberyozkin_at_talend.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> We can not use Priority annotation in out Java 1.6 build and it effectively blocks us from migrating - and unfortunately we can not afford dropping Java 1.6 in the short term.
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>>> I'm hoping one of the proposed solutions at [1] will do, but I'm sending the message to the list in case we can find yet another option
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>>> Thanks, Sergey
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>>> [1] http://java.net/jira/browse/JAX_RS_SPEC-352
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