Chapter 4. Why the most recent JDK?

Artur Hefczyc <artur.hefczyc@tigase.net> v2.0, June 2014: Reformatted for AsciiDoc. :toc: :numbered: :website: http://tigase.net/ :Date: 2010-04-06 21:22

Well there are many reasons but the main is that I am the only one developer working on source code at the moment. So the whole approach is to make life easier for me, make the project easier to maintain and development more efficient.

Here is the list:

What features of JDK-1.5 are critical for Tigase development? Why I can’t simply reimplement some code to make it compatible with earlier JDK versions?

I think above list is enough to decide to use JDK-1.5. But why JDK-1.6? Well, the is actually only 1 main reason so far: