Re: Barracuda still doesn't compile on JDK 1.3.1

+1 for Servlet 2.3.

Christian Cryder wrote:

> 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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> Christian Cryder [[email protected]]
> Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
> Barracuda - http://barracudamvc.org <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). 
>