GeoTools developers are considering aswitch to Java 6 as the minimum requirement starting with GeoTools 8.0: this will give us an improved API to rely on, faster development cycle and a more common development environment setup (finding Java 5 is getting increasingly difficult, especially on some platforms).
The current stable series, 2.7.x, will remain on Java 5, giving people needing to support the old JDK at the very least another six months of live development.
We’d like to hear your opinion on this move. Let us know by voting on the user poll:
http://www.micropoll.com/a/mpview/943467-423595
Thanks for your participation!
