[OSM-talk] JOSM will move to Java6

[Frederik Ramm]

All,

    Dirk (the current JOSM maintainer) has just announced on josm-dev 
that JOSM will move to Java6 around the end of this month. This means 
that anyone who does not have Java6 may continue to work with the 
current JOSM release but will not be able to use the new builds from 
April on.

Backports will be possible but will likely imply a loss of 
functionality, and the core JOSM team is not going to provide backports.

Java6 has been around for more than three years now (and other OSM 
software, e.g. Osmosis, already depends on it) so if you are still using 
an older version it might be time to upgrade. (If you are in the 
unfortunate situation of having willfully chained yourself to one 
Hardware/OS supplier and that supplier is unwilling to release Java6 for 
your platform, it may be time to finally ditch that supplier.)

Bye
Frederik