Jdk1.3? was RE: WAR file

["Stevenson, Chris (SSABSA)" <ch...@ssabsa.sa.gov.au>]

> If we can use Java 1.2 then we can plan on getting this fixed 
> and keeping
> XSP as a core package, otherwise we see about possibly moving 
> it out to a
> seperate package?

Now I don't mean this as a troll, but sun have 
just released the JDK1.3 beta (with hotspot client 
and server VMs), the win JDK13 is released, there 
is an IBM 1.3 jdk, Apple OS/X will be 1.3 compliant

BSD is the only major platform still waiting, and
there are rumours of an alpha release... in the
meantime there is linux emulation mode

I have been biting my tongue at the 'we should be 
targeting 1.1' in deference to those stuck without 
1.2, but it does seem silly now that 1.3 is so 
widely available, espescially since the performance
and API improvements/bug fixes are so great...

As a bleeding edge state of the art XML product
cocoon2 should be targeting 1.2 - making use of
the key improvements that can make our lives easier

and preparing for an early adoption of Merlin 
(asynchronous IO!!!!) in the next developer only 
incarnation (cocoon3 anyone? :-)

chris.

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Re: Jdk1.3? was RE: WAR file

[burtonator <bu...@relativity.yi.org>]

"Stevenson, Chris (SSABSA)" wrote:
<snip> 
> Now I don't mean this as a troll, but sun have
> just released the JDK1.3 beta (with hotspot client
> and server VMs), the win JDK13 is released, there
> is an IBM 1.3 jdk, Apple OS/X will be 1.3 compliant
> 
> BSD is the only major platform still waiting, and
> there are rumours of an alpha release... in the
> meantime there is linux emulation mode
> 
> I have been biting my tongue at the 'we should be
> targeting 1.1' in deference to those stuck without
> 1.2, but it does seem silly now that 1.3 is so
> widely available, espescially since the performance
> and API improvements/bug fixes are so great...
> 
> As a bleeding edge state of the art XML product
> cocoon2 should be targeting 1.2 - making use of
> the key improvements that can make our lives easier

I am -1 for requiring 1.3.  It is cool to target but not require.

The jump from 1.1 -> 1.2 is a big one due to the collections API, etc. 
The 1.2 -> 1.3 jump isn't that big so I don't think we should limit
ourselves.

If you are on a cool OS (IE Linux) that SUN doesn't officially make
money on you aren't going to be fully supported any time soon. :)

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