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Re: [Jersey] Jersey to require Java SE 6?

From: Igor Minar <iiminar_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:46:48 -0700

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_sun.com> wrote:
> Note that SE 5 is EOL'ed:
>
>  http://java.sun.com/products/archive/eol.policy.html
>
> Paul.

There is your answer.

Jersey is an open source project and as such doesn't have the
resources and/or responsibilities as commercial products.

If someone really wants Java5 support, maybe there should be a paid
support model that would allow this via a paid contract. That's how
JavaSE support works after all.

Having hands tied due to legacy systems will only slow down the
innovation that made jersey/jaxrs popular in the first place.

/i