I think such comments are helpful because they can be referenced in discussions with admins and management, in a way such comments foster change to the better.
Detlef Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are many people out there that are stuck with that dilemma, and your comment is not helpful at all. -----Original Message----- From: Holger Hoffstaette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 January 2006 16:38 To: tapestry-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: Tapestry 4.0 is NOT Java 1.3 compliant On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:34:53 +0000, Johny wrote: > At the risk of repeating myself, could I just highlight the issue of 1.3 > compliancy. It was mentioned a few places that Tapestry 4.0 is Java 1.3 > compliant, even thouh some examples are not (using annotations etc.). If you are still using 1.3 for server-side work you practically *deserve* to be ignored by the rest of the world because those VMs are known to have serious deadlock and data corruption bugs. Fire your CTO. I am at a total loss why companies think they can just "decide" that the rest of the world has to freeze just for them. Howard, please start using 1.5 exclusively (if only for util.concurrent) and provide 1.4-compatibility via retrotranslator (http://retrotranslator.sourceforge.net/) which is way better than retroweaver and "just works". -h Konstantin Ignatyev PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000 Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997: (4) (5) (p.206)
