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Bug 326781

Summary:	Update JRE recommendation on download page
Product:	Community	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	bugs, wayne.beaton
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne

2010-10-01 09:43:42 EDT

The main eclipse download page says on the right hand side:

"You will need a Java runtime environment (JRE) to use Eclipse (Java 5 JRE recommended)."

At least one user interpreted this to mean that Java 6 was not supported/recommended. Can you please update it to something like:

"You will need a Java runtime environment (JRE) to use Eclipse (Java SE 5 or greater is recommended)."

Comment 1 Wayne Beaton

2010-10-01 14:17:11 EDT

+1

Comment 2 Mark A. Ziesemer

2011-02-17 17:00:46 EST

Given that Java 6 was released in December 2006, and that Java 5 entered End-of-Life status in April 2008 and has been unsupported since October 2009 (reference: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html), shouldn't it be "Java SE 6 or greater is recommended"?  (Or maybe just "Java SE 6 is recommended", in order to not encourage Java 7, which doesn't have an official release yet?)

Comment 3 Mark A. Ziesemer

2011-02-17 17:01:45 EST

Besides the right-hand comment mentioned in comment #0, this also affects http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/jre.php .

Comment 4 Wayne Beaton

2011-02-17 23:51:22 EST

I've updated the two pages, /downloads and /downloads/moreinfo/jre to use text along the lines of what John suggested.

While I was at it, I updated the contents of the JRE page to reflect the reference platform story for 3.6.2.

John, do you agree with Mark's comments about Java 6? Strictly speaking, I think we are compatible with Java SE 5...

Comment 5 John Arthorne

2011-02-24 16:42:39 EST

(In reply to comment #4)
> John, do you agree with Mark's comments about Java 6?

Not really... Those are only statements about Oracle's VM. We support a variety of VM vendors and versions, and some platforms we support don't even have an Oracle VM.

Most visitors to the main download page will be consuming Helios releases, which have a variety of Java 5 and Java 6 reference platforms. For the Indigo release (June 2011), our reference platforms will be entirely Java 6 or greater, so it would be fair to make that change once Indigo is released.

Comment 6 Wayne Beaton

2011-02-25 11:35:13 EST

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > John, do you agree with Mark's comments about Java 6?
> 
> Not really... Those are only statements about Oracle's VM. We support a variety
> of VM vendors and versions, and some platforms we support don't even have an
> Oracle VM.

It looks like we're done here. I'm marking as FIXED. Mark, feel free to reopen if you feel that we haven't adequately addressed the issue.

Comment 7 Mark A. Ziesemer

2011-02-25 13:16:58 EST

Everything looks good - thanks!