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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by LoSboccacc on Sunday January 03, 2016 @07:10AM (#10830355)
eh, any app that maintains compatibility with jdks < 7 can't use the WatchService and it's low level system specific API, which includes buttload of enterprise app and but the most recents IDE that are starting to drop jdk 6 support.

then there is indeed the PEBCAK as you say, but you can't really blame people that knows the proper solutions if they have weird jdk to support.

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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by pjmlp on Sunday January 03, 2016 @08:36AM (#10830529)
Just two examples of such PEBCAK quality:

- Using a for loop to copy array contents instead of System.arraycopy()

- Doing everything on the main thread in Swing

There are plenty more that I can list and they never have anything to do with JDK versions.

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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by pron on Sunday January 03, 2016 @11:20AM (#10831083)
That problem was solved in the JDK five years ago. If you're required to support a ten-year-old, EOL-ed platform because people don't upgrade, that's still not the JVM's fault...
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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by LoSboccacc on Sunday January 03, 2016 @12:37PM (#10831374)
If it were for rational people, we wouldn't have spring beans application around. World isn't built on technical excellence.
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