Re: WO 5.3 und Java 5

On May 10, 2006, at 11:52 PM, Guido Neitzer wrote:

> On 11.05.2006, at 7:05 Uhr, Chad Leigh wrote:
>
>> How far back? I did not see anything in my mail archives here
>
> Couple of days, let's see ...

Ok, on the apple WO lists.  I only subscribe currently to the  
omnigroup ones.  Thanks for the info!

Chad

>
>> We have 1.4.2 on FreeBSD and 1.5 on Solaris 10.  The stuff on  
>> Solaris 10 runs fine but I am not sure if it is 5.2 or 5.3 since I  
>> did not write or provide it.
>
> It may work and for most situations it will work. I only said, it's  
> not supported and not recommended.
>
> Here is the mail, I was talking about:
>
> 	From: 	  [email protected]
> 	Subject: 	Re: Java 1.5 & WO?
> 	Date: 	26. April 2006 1:01:21 Uhr MESZ
> 	To: 	  [email protected], weobjects- 
> [email protected]
>
> For those of you not on our webobjects-announce list, a message was  
> posted
> this morning.  Normally I wouldn't forward these, but we haven't used
> webobjects-announce in a while and maybe some of you unsubscribed. :-)
>
>
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: WebObjects <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:46:52 -0700
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: WebObjects 5.3 and J2SE 5.0
>
> Although J2SE 5.0 Release 4 is an excellent Java update for most
> applications, WebObjects has not been certified on this release of  
> Java and
> initial testing has revealed the following issues:
>
> • A BigDecimal number compatibility issue exists due to a change in  
> the
> JDK's toString() returning scientific notation when exponents are  
> needed.
> This affects EO fetching. A workaround for this issue is to not  
> lock on
> BigDecimal EOAttributes. Another is to modify the scale and  
> precision on
> EOAttributes in your application.
>
> • As explained in Release Note at
> <http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/java> for J2SE 5.0  
> Release 4,
> the OpenBase JDBC driver included with WebObjects is not compatible  
> with
> J2SE 5. You will need to get the latest driver from OpenBase
> at <http://www.openbase.com/> if you wish to try this combination.
>
> We welcome feedback on WebObjects running under J2SE 5.0 and  
> encourage you
> to file bugs using <http://bugreport.apple.com/>. Please understand  
> that
> WebObjects 5.3.x running under J2SE 5.0 is not a supported  
> configuration and
> the above list of issues is not exhaustive.
>
> If you have already installed J2SE 5.0 Release 4 on your Mac OS X  
> (Server)
> system and would like to use the supported 1.4.2 JVM with your  
> WebObjects
> applications, please see document 75505 "WebObjects 5.3: Using Java  
> 1.4 With
> Mac OS X After J2SE 5.0 Release 4 Is Installed"
> <http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n75505>.
>
> The WebObjects Team
>
>
> -- 
> Cliff Tuel . http://apple.com/services/technicalsupport
>