What should be the minimum dependency requirements for the next major OmniFaces version?
For the next major version of OmniFaces (2.x, planned for over a few months) we're currently looking at determining the minimum version of its dependencies. Specifically the minimum Java SE version is tricky to get right. OmniFaces 1.x currently targets JSF 2.0/2.1 (2009/2010), which depends on Servlet 2.5 (2006) and Java SE 5 (2004). In practice relatively few people appear to be using Servlet 2.5 so for OmniFaces 1.x we primarily test on Servlet 3.0. Nevertheless, Servlet 2.5 is the official minimum requirement and we sometimes had to go to great lengths to keep OmniFaces 1.x compatible with Servlet 2.5. As for the Java SE 5 requirement, we noted that so few people were still using this (especially among the people who were also using JSF 2.1) that we set Java SE 6 as the minimum. Until so far we never had a complaint about Java SE 6 being the minimum. For OmniFaces 2.x we'll be targeting JSF 2.2 (2013), which itself has Servlet 3.0 (2009) as the minimum Servlet versi...