Re: NetServe and JDK1.3

peter-4lf8KW9E9MLMqX/[email protected] wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> As some may have noticed I have recently been refactoring and rejigging the
> NetServe stuff in spice. (NetServe is essentially a bunch of utilities for
> writing network servers). I have also been working on sandbox/connector
> which is a bunch of utilities for maintaining connections and response in
> drop outs etc. Connections can be anything from TCP to SQL to COM port
> connections (the toolkit is in use in all the above scenarios).
> 
> However I keep running up against scalability problems. ie The system I am
> writing on should be able to comfortably scale to many simultaneous
> conenction and associating a thread with each client/conenction or even a
> thread per server socket is not a scalable solution. Thus I have been
> gradually creating NIO versions of many of the services to get scalability.
> 
> The problem is that NIO is JDK1.4+ - I was wondering whether it is useful to
> maintain the JDK1.3 stuff. I wont use it any longer and dont really want to
> maintain it and it may start to get in the way. What does everyone else
> think? Anyone using it or should it gradually be rewritten to be JDK1.4.
> 
> The advantage of axing it is we essentially get a much better designed
> system because we can strongly bind to JDK1.4 features (like channels).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

we should aim keep JDK1.3 compat where equivalent functionality is 
available - eg regex via external lib as oro.
but if essential features are only available in 1.4+ (or make it much
better design) then I would drop compatibility with 1.3.

1.4 is now becoming quite main stream anyway and 1.5 is knocking at the
door.  we could even drop 1.3 compat altogether when 1.5 comes out.
Although I would opt for an on-demand approach.

Cheers




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