The application server portion of Eclipse 8.6.9 requires JBoss 5.1 and Java 6. The IBM Java 6 SDK requires the following minimum levels of AIX:
| Java 6 32-bit | Java 6 64-bit | |
| Minimum AIX level supported – 5.1 | N/A | N/A |
| Minimum AIX level supported – 5.2 | N/A | N/A |
| Minimum AIX level supported – 5.3 | 5300-07 (APAR IZ07976) | 5300-07 (APAR IZ07976) |
| Minimum AIX level supported – 6.1 | 6100-GOLD | 6100-GOLD |
| Minimum AIX level supported – 7.1 | 7100-GOLD | 7100-GOLD |
| End of Service | 30 Nov 2017 | 30 Nov 2017 |
Source: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/service.html
If you follow the recommended best practices for keeping your AIX server up to date, you are already on a supported version of AIX.