Re: JRE1.3

Greetings,

I have been lurking and reading the occasional
comments here.  My take on Java 1.3 is that if you
want the project to gain widespread acceptance you
should at least support a 1.3 build.  It is possible
to still take advantage of 1.4 features, but make that
an option in the build process.  The Jakarta project
for Database Connection Pooling (DBCP) has a smart Ant
script which causes certain code to be commented out
depending on what version of JDBC is selected since
the interface added many methods to the interface in
JDBC 3.0.  The Ant script tasks which make this work
are very simple.

I suggest the same be done for SwixML and all 1.4 code
have a 1.3 equivalent which can be enabled/disabled
with a properties setting in the build script.

Hopefully the 1.4 dependencies are at a minimum.

- Brennan


--- [email protected] wrote:
> Does anyone really care about making sure that
> Swixml runs on both 1.3 and 1.4?  I'm just asking
> because I'm stuck in 1.3 land and had to modify the
> kernel to get it to compile under 1.3  I guess it
> doesn't matter much if you only use the binary
> builds as the new 1.4 functionality won't matter
> since you can't use it anyway.
> 
> Steve Toth
> 
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