newbie question

[dan z <da...@hotmail.com>]

Hi All,

Just started looking at jackrabbit and have a question regarding the JDK 
version requirement: the document says JDK1.4 is mandatory. But my web app 
has to run on a WebSphere server that supports only J2ee1.3 and won't be 
upgraded in short period.

Could anyone tell me what part of jackrabbit requires JDK1.4 and / or is 
there any workaround?

I can of course use a separate server that supports newer JDK version, but 
not sure if that will introduce other problem since my web application would 
then need to use remote access to the content repository.

Thanks,
D

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Re: newbie question

[danz z <da...@hotmail.com>]

Thank you Marcel.

In this case, I have another question: looking at the deployment "how-to" 
pages (model 2), I need to register a Server Resource in 
"GlobalNamingResources" and then bind it to a JNDI name.

How can I do this in Geronimo? There doesn't seem to be a counterpart of 
"GlobalNamingResources" in Geronimo.

Thanks,
D.Z.


>From: Marcel Reutegger <ma...@gmx.net>
>Reply-To: users@jackrabbit.apache.org
>To: users@jackrabbit.apache.org
>Subject: Re: newbie question
>Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 17:43:54 +0200
>
>dan z wrote:
>>Just started looking at jackrabbit and have a question regarding the JDK 
>>version requirement: the document says JDK1.4 is mandatory. But my web app 
>>has to run on a WebSphere server that supports only J2ee1.3 and won't be 
>>upgraded in short period.
>>
>>Could anyone tell me what part of jackrabbit requires JDK1.4 and / or is 
>>there any workaround?
>
>there are various areas in jackrabbit that use 1.4 features:
>- parsing of QName and Path uses regular expressions
>- repository impl uses NIO
>- javax.security is used for authentication
>- javax.xml.transform for xml processing
>- some collection classes that are only available in 1.4
>
>I don't think there is a workaround to get jackrabbit working with 1.3. 
>some of the missing features might be available as separate jar files from 
>sun, but getting the NIO feature into a 1.3 jdk seems hopeless.
>
>regards
>  marcel
>
>
>

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Re: newbie question

[Marcel Reutegger <ma...@gmx.net>]

dan z wrote:
> Just started looking at jackrabbit and have a question regarding the JDK 
> version requirement: the document says JDK1.4 is mandatory. But my web 
> app has to run on a WebSphere server that supports only J2ee1.3 and 
> won't be upgraded in short period.
> 
> Could anyone tell me what part of jackrabbit requires JDK1.4 and / or is 
> there any workaround?

there are various areas in jackrabbit that use 1.4 features:
- parsing of QName and Path uses regular expressions
- repository impl uses NIO
- javax.security is used for authentication
- javax.xml.transform for xml processing
- some collection classes that are only available in 1.4

I don't think there is a workaround to get jackrabbit working with 1.3. 
some of the missing features might be available as separate jar files 
from sun, but getting the NIO feature into a 1.3 jdk seems hopeless.

regards
  marcel