> a new infusion of activity and interest. you betcha, most of us would be up in arms!
I personally am stuck on 1.4.2 for the foreseeable future. So +1 to drop 1.2/3 support, but let's not get too drastic please. ______________________________ Franck Schmidlin Corporate Integration Consultant Northgate Public Services Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan Beyer Sent: 11 November 2008 02:25 To: j-users@xerces.apache.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dropping JDK 1.2 support for Xerces-J (and possibly JDK 1.3? 1.4? in the future) +1 I'd suggest just jumping to Java 5 library, source and target compilation. I think this would give the project a new infusion of activity and interest. -Nathan On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Michael Glavassevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > (including [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the cc list to hopefully reach a > wider > audience) > > I would like to propose that we officially drop support for JDK 1.2 in > the next release of Xerces-J. Though the documentation [1] states that > Xerces supports JDK 1.2 it has been years since we have built or > tested binaries with this level. All of the recent releases were built > and tested with JDK 1.3. It was brought to my attention that the code > [2] since at least 2006 has had a dependency on APIs introduced in JDK > 1.3. So we inadvertently moved on awhile ago. It seems this has not > been a practical issue for most users since we've received no posts on > these lists about it and received no other bug reports. It's not clear > that there would be much benefit in restoring JDK 1.2 compatibility at > this point. It's been out of service for years and looking around > Apache it seems most projects run on JDK 1.4 or higher with some of the stragglers [3][4] below that moving up soon. > > If you have serious concerns regarding Xerces abandoning JDK 1.2 > support please send an email to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing > list, specifying why you can't use a higher level of JDK and what > parser features you are using. > > While on the subject I wonder what the community would think of us > eventually dropping support for JDK 1.3 and possibly 1.4. There were > features introduced in JDK 1.4 and 5 which Xerces could benefit from (e.g. > NIO, java.lang.CharSequence, exception chaining, > java.lang.StringBuilder, java.util.concurrent.*, etc...). That's not > something I'm proposing today (or thinking of proposing for awhile) > but would like to hear feedback from users (please send to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) who may still need new versions of Xerces > which run on JDK 1.3 and 1.4. It would also be nice hear from folks > who've long since moved on to Java 5 and beyond and would like to see Xerces take advantage of JDK 1.4 and 5 features. > > Thanks. > > [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-general.html#faq-11 > [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1297 > [3] http://marc.info/?l=ant-dev&m=122596549809889&w=2 > [4] http://marc.info/?l=fop-user&m=119244442600564&w=2 > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl This email is sent on behalf of Northgate Information Solutions Limited and its associated companies ("Northgate") and is strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email you must: (i) not disclose, copy or distribute its contents to any other person nor use its contents in any way or you may be acting unlawfully; (ii) contact Northgate immediately on +44 (0)1442 232424 quoting the name of the sender and the addressee then delete it from your system. Northgate has taken reasonable precautions to ensure that no viruses are contained in this email, but does not accept any responsibility once this email has been transmitted. You should scan attachments (if any) for viruses. Northgate Information Solutions Limited. Registered in England no. 06442582 - Northgate Information Solutions UK Limited. Registered in England no. 968498 - NorthgateArinso UK Limited. Registered in England no. 1587537 - Moorepay Limited. Registered in England no. 891686 - Northgate Land & Property Solutions Limited - Registered in England no. 2149536 Registered Office: Peoplebuilding 2, Peoplebuilding Estate, Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP2 4NW Northgate Managed Services Limited (NI). Registered in Northern Ireland no. NI032979 - LearnServe Limited (NI). Registered in Northern Ireland no. NI043825 Registered Office: Hillview House, 61 Church Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT36 7LQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
