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Re: Newbie question - Which Java SE version is supported?

From: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:30:45 -0500

SE 5.0 is the minimum due to use of annotations and generics. See
section 1.3 of the spec:

"The following are non-goals:
Support for Java versions prior to J2SE 5.0. The API will make
extensive use of annotations and will require J2SE 5.0 or later."

Marc.

On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Dianne Jiao wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Java SE 6 is a definite. How about Java SE 5?
> Even better, where this information is stated?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dianne
>
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.