RE: Barracuda still doesn't compile on JDK 1.3.1

Hi Jake,

Maybe you are correct here...for some reason I was thinking that the servlet
apis were included with the JDK, but now that I think about it that's
probably not correct. So you are right - there shouldn't be a hard tie
between the servlet API and the JDK (or at least not between 1.3 and 1.4).

I agree that I would like to get to officially requiring the 2.3 version of
the servlet spec, but I also know that appservers tend to lag a bit. So the
question would be - how many people would be impacted if we started using
2.3 features? In other words, are there any folks out there who _couldn't_
get their appservers to work with 2.3, and if so, when do they think they'll
be able to?

Christian
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Barracuda - http://barracudamvc.org
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  -----Original Message-----
  From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jacob Kjome
  Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:44 AM
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: RE: [Barracuda] Barracuda still doesn't compile on JDK 1.3.1


  Hi Christian,

  Can you point out where servlet-2.3 requires j2sdk1.4.x?  I don't believe
this statement is true at all.  It may become true in later specs
(servlet-2.4 maybe?).  However, I'm pretty sure that servlet-2.3 has full
compatibility with JDK1.3.x.  I don't think Tomcat requires j2sdk1.4.x so
that would be evidence that there is no such requirement.   So, the
servlet-2.3 compatibility issue is, IMO, a completely different one than the
JDK issue.

  That said, I think we may want to start requiring servlet-2.3.  Tomcat-5.0
is well under development which will support the 2.4 spec.  I think it is
time to take advantage of the new stuff out there.  Servlet-2.3 has too many
advantages over 2.2 to avoid using it.

  Jake

  At 08:30 AM 1/21/2003 -0700, you wrote:

    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).