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Re: [Jersey] Jersey 1.3 is released

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:16:10 +0200

Hi Tim,

On Jul 2, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Wolf, Timo wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Great!
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> The sentence:
> This release only works with Java SE 6 or greater (still eagerly
> waiting for SE 7!) which greatly simplifies our build and deployment
> infrastructure. In addition to stopping those annoying compilation
> issues when developing on SE 6 but compiling on SE 5
> (String.isEmpty() i am talking about you)
>
> Does this mean I cannot deploy my Jersey App on a Tomcat running on
> Java 5?
>

Unfortunately not. You need to use Tomcat running on Java SE 6.

Sun/Oracle's SE 5 distribution is EOL'ed, although it may be possible
to get special support for it.

Paul.