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Over to you. Should we move to Java 5.0?


It’s been more than six months since I weighed up the move to Java 5.0 in my post Migrating to Java 5.0. Reality or a pipe dream?
 . The last paragraph sums up what I thought.

Version 5.0 is a turning point and will catch on, but in my view migrating would be premature for both development and deployment. I could toss out some numbers, but there’d be little point. Personally I’d wait for at least the first update, 5.0 Update 1, then decide based on where things stand.

Six months is a terribly long time in IT, but I’m still skeptical about switching. Things are changing 
 among tools that have begun to use or support 5.0 widely. As for running Java 
 5.0 in production, I think the situation is much the same. Todd Huss expresses 
 a similar view, though I wouldn’t call it identical, in his post 
 It’s still too soon to upgrade to J2SE 5.0. There’s also 
 a good discussion on TheServerSide, as usual, in the thread Todd Huss: Still too soon to move to J2SE 5.0.

What do you think? Have you moved to Java 5.0, are you moving now, or are you planning to? What’s your reason?

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