Illegal Argument Episode 73 - a podcast by Mark Derricutt, Greg Amer and Richard Vowles

Illegal Argument Episode 73

• Inland Revenue $1bill upgrade


• Java 7 Adoption Stories / Woes
  
  
  
  • Java 6 EOL in July THIS YEAR, EOL likely to be pushed out?
  
  
  • Has Java 7 actually been released? http://java.com/en/download/faq/java7.xml says its only for developers, not end users.
  
  
  • Codegen/byteweaving woes stopping us from targetting JDK7 – class verifier is more strict, ASM 4.0 has been updated to generate correct bytecode but not everything uses it yet.
  
  
  • Unable to build OSGi under Java 7
    
    
    
    • https://mail.osgi.org/pipermail/osgi-dev/2011-August/003224.html
    
    
    • http://www.mail-archive.com/users@felix.apache.org/msg11574.html
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• New HTTP STATUS CODES approved!

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