⁠Chapter 35. Dependencies

35.1. JDK Dependencies
35.1.1. Oracle's JDK 6 Considerations
35.2. Project Dependencies
35.2.1. Core
35.2.2. RichFaces
35.2.3. Seam PDF
35.2.4. Seam Microsoft®Excel®
35.2.5. Drools
35.2.6. GWT
35.2.7. Groovy
35.3. Dependency Management using Maven

⁠35.1. JDK Dependencies

Seam does not work with JDK 1.4 and requires JDK 5 or above as it uses annotations and other JDK 5.0 features. Seam has been thoroughly tested using Oracle's JDKs and OpenJDKs.

⁠35.1.1. Oracle's JDK 6 Considerations

Earlier versions of Oracle's JDK 6 contained an incompatible version of JAXB and required overriding it using the "endorsed" directory. Oracle's JDK6 Update 4 release upgraded to JAXB 2.1 and removed this requirement. When building, testing, or executing be sure to use this version or higher.