[melling]

Java 1.6 is 5 years old. If you're the kind of company that couldn't upgrade to it in the last 5 years, it's probably too big of a leap to adopt this.

[dustingetz]

  > If you're the kind of company that couldn't upgrade to Java 1.6 in 5 years

it doesn't always work like that. imagine a very rich customer who has all sorts of proprietary customizations to all of their software investments. millions of LOC. nobody's gonna port that shit off of java 1.5, and they told ya to deploy in their existing server environment, and ya do it because, well, they're rich.

[spullara]

There is no porting to be done between 5 and 6.

[phzbOx]

Sadly, often time you'll have clients that use older version and you need to stay backward compatible for them.