Why Java 6?

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elness
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Why Java 6?

Post by elness »

Why is there a dependency on Java 6? Are you in fact using some of the programming features and/or APIs specific to Java 6? There are many more people using Java 5 or Java 2 (Java 1.4.x) than Java 6.

Just curious, really...
malun
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Post by malun »

Yes, in fact I actually am...
I could however skip the java 6 specific api to let Yawcam be at least java 5 compatible. But I don't want anybody to run Yawcam on java 5. The main reason for this is the performance improvements made in the image I/O for java 6. Some info here:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/campbell/a ... power.html

Since I have decided to require java 6, I can use the new API without any bad conscience. :wink:

/malun
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