Re: JDK 1.4 dependencies

Conor MacNeill wrote:
> I have been looking at the removal of dependencies from the gump profile 
> which can be satisfied by JDK 1.4.
> 
> In some respects this is quite straight forward, just remove the 
> dependencies on things like jaxp and jsse. I am a little hesitant to 
> follow that course because in reality the projects do depend on these 
> facilities, it's just that JDK1.4 provides these facilities directly.
> 
> What I am looking for is a way to have Gump recognize that these 
> facilities are provided by the JDK and to skip the check for the package 
> jars. I thought of adding a <jdk version="1.4+"/> to the project 
> definitions, the result would be to check the JDK version first and the 
> the package jars.

It seems to me that there are two different types of dependencies which 
are "obsoleted" by JDK 1.4.  To illustrate the other kind: there are 
projects that depend on Xalan.  Not the version shipped with the JDK, 
but on a later version.  That's what the bootclasspath stuff is for.

A simpler approach may be to simply change <depend project="jsse"/> to 
<option project="jsse"/>, and provide a documentation page listing the 
packages which are required to be installed, based on the version of the 
JDK you are using.

- Sam Ruby