Re: Barracuda still doesn't compile on JDK 1.3.1

Hi,

Christian Cryder wrote:
> Ok, I want to hear from Shawn if the code here can easily be modified to 
> support both 1.3 and 1.4; my guess is that it probably can.
>  
> This raises a bigger issue however - what do we do in cases where its 
> not possible to support both, or where we want to take advantage of 
> something that's available in a higher version but is not in earlier 
> ones. This will increasingly become an issue as we want to take 
> advantage of Servlet 2.3 functionality (I believe JDK 1.3 only supports 
> Servlet 1.2).
>  
> I know that there are folks who have complained about Java's lack of 
> if-defs (like in C), but I'm not totally sure what we can do about 
> it...does anyone have any suggestions or strategies here?
>  
> The easiest solution is to get everyone onto JDK 1.4 as soon as 
> possible, but I realize that may be difficult (or impossible). So what 
> platforms/appservers do not yet have JDK 1.4 support?

our up-and-runnig application uses jdk1.3.1, and AFAIK all apps 
currently under developement are on that release, too. Albeit we 
currently only use the form validation in these, having class-loading 
issues or other stuff would be at least annoying.

So I personally would prefer to be compatible to 1.3.1. Regarding the 
servlet 2.3 compatibility: where exactly does that come into play? AFAIK 
  the servlet api is to be implemented by the app server provider, and 
hasn't to do with the jdk itself (as long as the api doesn't rely on 
special classes in 1.4, but I can't imagine any).

Diez