compatibility

[Sven Ludwig <sv...@100world.de>]

Hi,

a thought to add to the current compatibility discussion.

Maybe in some aspects, XML parsing, IO etc., XML-RPC 2 or 3 could be built up so that
users can integrate it with libraries they want to use, of course not anything, just
out of a set of declared, possible libraries and versions thereof.

This may be done so that there is only one, configurable release of XML-RPC
to use in all JDKs and environments. Specific code gets executed, the selection
depending on the requisites in the environment - of course the matter of such a
configurable release can be complex and may have some disadvantages also.

Or there could be different editions (i.e. different archives) of one release.
Like in Tomcat 4, for which two editions are available, one for older JDKs and one "lite"
verison for 1.4, in which some libs are not included within the release since they are now in the JDK.

There may be other ways fo course, these two are the ones I just had in mind.

Cheers,

Sven Ludwig