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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We’re still running Java 1.6/1.7 with Mondrian. External dependencies, QA time, and release cycles make it hard to sunset older versions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">--jeff wright<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> mondrian-bounces@pentaho.org [mailto:mondrian-bounces@pentaho.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Barber<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 17, 2015 1:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mondrian developer mailing list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mondrian] Removing support for Java 5 & 6 (JDBC 3 and 4.0)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>As you can't run the bi server on java 8 I wouldn't stop that yet! ;)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I still hear of people on java 6 often but I've not compiled saiku for java 6 in a couple of years so it doesn't bother me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Tom<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 17 Jun 2015 18:48, "Julian Hyde" <<a href="mailto:julianhyde@gmail.com">julianhyde@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">No objections from me for dropping 1.5 and 1.6 support. I don’t mind dropping 1.7, either, but I suspect there are some who might.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Julian<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] <a href="https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_7.xml" target="_blank">https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_7.xml</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Jun 17, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Luc Boudreau <<a href="mailto:lucboudreau@gmail.com" target="_blank">lucboudreau@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mondrian is still compiled by Java 5 through 7. This was done in order to support JDBC specifications 3 and 4.0. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We'd like some feedback on the potential impact on the community if we go ahead and remove support for these old versions of the JDKs. Is there anyone out there who still care about having Mondrian compatible with old JDKs?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br>
Mondrian mailing list<br>
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<a href="http://lists.pentaho.org/mailman/listinfo/mondrian" target="_blank">http://lists.pentaho.org/mailman/listinfo/mondrian</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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