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Posted to java-dev@axis.apache.org by Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com> on 2003/10/15 19:44:53 UTC

Java1.3 (was Re: Axis and NIO)

Kellogg, Richard wrote:
> Question: How much longer do we plan on supporting JDK 1.3.x?  I know we plan on supporting it in Axis 1.2 but what after that release?  Would we gain any performance increases by requiring JDK 1.4.x?  Food for thought.
> 
> Rick
> 
> 

That is something the dev team can vote on, though I would encourage an 
informal poll of the user list before doing it.

A big issue is what about app servers that use Axis: IBM, Macromedia, 
Borland and JBoss will all have opinions on the matter. Unless they want 
to move to JAva1.4 only, Axis needs to support 1.3 land for some time more.

On a related note, when can we move to Servlets2.3? I think the extra 
lifecycle events would let us do cleanups better, and the JAX-RPC spec 
does actually say 'Servlets 2.3'...