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Posted to j-users@xerces.apache.org by David Dillard <Da...@veritas.com> on 2018/07/30 13:27:27 UTC
RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: java project build question, in eclipse IDE
That sounds like a good idea. Testing on JDK 1.4, which has been EOL for years now, seems like a waste of time.
Java 6 extended support ends this December, so either Java 6 or Java 7 might be a good place to start.
From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:mukulg@apache.org]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2018 7:13 AM
To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <el...@ibiblio.org>
Cc: j-dev@xerces.apache.org; j-users@xerces.apache.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: java project build question, in eclipse IDE
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold <el...@ibiblio.org>> wrote:
I'm curious. Why do you need 1.4 and 1.3? Do you have customers using those?
This needs to be understood correctly. Xerces can run on min JREs 1.4 (if XSD 1.1 is needed) and 1.3 respectively. This doesn't mean, that Xerces cannot run on higher version JREs (I've personally tested, that Xerces 2.12.0 can run fine up to JDK 9).
May be its time, we need to revisit the min JDK levels for Xerces. Michael Glavassevich needs to organize consensus on this.
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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi
Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: java project build question, in eclipse IDE
Posted by Christophe Marchand <cm...@oxiane.com>.
I vote for Java 7 as a minimum for Xerces 2.12.xxx
There is still a lot of very old desktop computers with java 6 & swing
applications. And maintainers need strong arguments to migrate to recent
JDKs.
Removing support for pre-java 7 in Xerces will be a strong-enough argument.
Christophe
Le 30/07/2018 à 15:27, David Dillard a écrit :
>
> That sounds like a good idea. Testing on JDK 1.4, which has been EOL
> for years now, seems like a waste of time.
>
> Java 6 extended support ends this December, so either Java 6 or Java 7
> might be a good place to start.
>
> *From:* Mukul Gandhi [mailto:mukulg@apache.org]
> *Sent:* Monday, July 30, 2018 7:13 AM
> *To:* Elliotte Rusty Harold <el...@ibiblio.org>
> *Cc:* j-dev@xerces.apache.org; j-users@xerces.apache.org
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: java project build question, in eclipse IDE
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold
> <elharo@ibiblio.org <ma...@ibiblio.org>> wrote:
>
> I'm curious. Why do you need 1.4 and 1.3? Do you have customers
> using those?
>
> This needs to be understood correctly. Xerces can run on min JREs 1.4
> (if XSD 1.1 is needed) and 1.3 respectively. This doesn't mean, that
> Xerces cannot run on higher version JREs (I've personally tested, that
> Xerces 2.12.0 can run fine up to JDK 9).
>
> May be its time, we need to revisit the min JDK levels for
> Xerces. Michael Glavassevich needs to organize consensus on this.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi
>