What are Valid reasons for using 1.4 instead of 1.5/5.0 jdk?

Our IT department prescribes 1.4 on a new java project. We have complete control over the development and deployment environment, so access to a 5.0 jvm is not a problem.Are there pure technical reasons for choosing 1.4 over 5.0 or is this just a political decision.

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# 1

As it is a new project without any relations to other existing projects, it's a political decision. Some big companies also just have 1 standard and all projects need to follow this standard. There is no technical reason to prefer 1.4 over 1.5 as you can also develop 1.4 code with an 1.5 SDK/JRE if you also decide the runtime environment and can set this as a system requirement. Perhaps the company has too many PCs to roll out 1.5 and therefore stays with 1.4?

MartinHilperta at 2007-7-13 8:12:41 >

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# 2

politics mostly, but also laziness on the part of the people making such decisions to evaluate new technology as it comes along.In our case there's another factor in that 1.5 isn't yet available on all platforms we deploy on, so we're pretty much stuck.

jwentinga at 2007-7-13 8:12:41 >

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