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Why doesn JAMWiki use features from Java 6?

April 26, 2017features jamwiki Java

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Why doesn JAMWiki use features from Java 6?

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One of JAMWiki’s goals is to be able to run on older application servers, and as a result all JAMWiki code is Java 5 and Servlet 2.4 compatible. Many businesses and institutions upgrade their application servers only when they have to, and as a result there is a large base of servers that will not support newer JDKs. JAMWiki was upgraded to Java 5 with the release of JAMWiki 0.8.0 since JDK 1.4 completed its end-of-life period on 30-October-2008, but there are not presently any plans to require Java 6 despite Java 5 having reached its end-of-life on October 8, 2009. If one of JAMWiki’s core libraries, such as the Spring Framework or Lucene upgraded to Java 6 then an upgrade of JAMWiki’s minimum JDK requirements would be considered.