[duaneb]

> Don't look at some crufty apache product, but look at medium size business apps...

What do you think those medium sized business apps are built off of if not things with JVM dependencies? It's not so simple.

[brianwawok]

Depends a bunch.

Some things like Guava got more or less obsolete in JDK8.. so seeing it targeting JDK5.. doesn't really matter.

Also JDK5 stuff will work on JDK8.. so you can suck in all the JDK5 libraries you want, but still run a JDK8 project.