On 2/12/2013 12:04 PM, Sergey Beryozkin 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.
>>
> 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 -
>
> 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
>
Oh, I thought @Priority was an EE6-EE7 thing and not part of the JDK. I
have concerns about this as well. There are a lot of slow moving
customers/users as it pertains to the JDK version they use. I told you
this before, but as recent as 9 months ago, I had somebody say they
coudln't use Resteasy because it wasn't compiled to JDK 5.
Bill
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