Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.chainon-marquant.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!198.186.194.247.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java 8 Lambda binary snapshot Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:45:09 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 15 Message-ID: <7958763.239.1321281909576.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prou19> References: <2244638.2045.1321057203472.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prep8> <4ebe8090$0$288$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <7580854.318.1321121258309.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prlm15> Reply-To: comp.lang.java.programmer@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.164.137.214 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1321281910 13924 127.0.0.1 (14 Nov 2011 14:45:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:45:10 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.164.137.214; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9955 Arved Sandstrom wrote: > What actually holds us back with adoption of recent Java (JDK/JRE) > versions is not any particular reluctance on the part of most clients to > keep up with the Joneses in that respect, but because they are very > conservative with all their major software (like app servers)...which if > it's not certified for a later Java means we can't move to it. That's just the same phenomenon - "not certified for a later Java" means that someone was unwilling to move to that later Java until it was EOLed. Why don't the vendors certify for the later Java in anything less than five years? It's the same question. Pushing it back one level doesn't answer it. -- Lew