RE: Poll: JDK 1.3 support

From: Gentry, Michael \(Contractor\) ("Gentry,)
Date: Thu Sep 29 2005 - 09:04:28 EDT

  • Next message: Andrus Adamchik: "Re: Poll: JDK 1.3 support"

    I'm not feeling a lot of Java 1.3.x love out there ... :-)

    /dev/mrg

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Nick Stuart [mailto:nicholas.stuar..mail.com]
    Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 8:40 AM
    To: cayenne-use..bjectstyle.org
    Subject: Re: Poll: JDK 1.3 support

    +1

    On 9/28/05, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
    > Hi folks,
    >
    > This discussion started on cayenne-devel, but as Mike Kienenberger
    > pointed out, this is of interest to all users, so I am transferring
    > it here. So far the consensus was that Cayenne 1.1.x should maintain
    > JDK 1.3 compatibility for as long as needed, while 1.2 should go JDK
    > 1.4 all the way.
    >
    > The decision has not been made yet. Any comments?
    >
    > Andrus
    >
    >
    > Begin forwarded message:
    >
    > > From: Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org>
    > > Date: September 28, 2005 3:41:39 PM EDT
    > > To: Cayenne Devel <cayenne-deve..bjectstyle.org>
    > > Subject: Poll: JDK 1.3 support
    > > Reply-To: cayenne-deve..bjectstyle.org
    > >
    > >
    > > I was wondering if there any users out there who deploy on JDK 1.3?
    > > Ok, I know there are WebObjects installations out there that use
    > > JDK 1.1.8, but we won't go that far :-) ... Any major J2EE
    > > container vendor shipped versions in the past 2 years that do not
    > > support 1.4?
    > >
    > > I'd like to eventually clean up the code, ridding it from 1.3
    > > workarounds (such as no nested exceptions support, a need to use
    > > third-party regexps, collections, etc.). Also it is an issue of
    > > testing - it takes extra time to test with 1.3... So maybe not in
    > > Cayenne 1.2, but maybe in 1.2.1 we can do such switch.
    > >
    > > Any comments?
    > >
    > > Andrus
    > >
    > >
    >
    >



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