On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Remy Maucherat wrote: | Jess Holle wrote: | > Just a note: | > | > Please allow the anti-locking stuff to be skipped on Windows as well. | > [Some of us value performance over deployment convenience.] | | Yes, of course. In production, many people don't use hot deployment (it | doesn't give good enough QoS right now, IMO). | | >> - Possibly require JDK 1.5 (cleaner code, annotations, integrated JMX | >> and JMX | >> remote, etc) | > | > It would be good to get many of the changes listed above this last point | > available in 5.0.x and usable with JDK 1.4.2 and then branch to 5.1 and | > do 1.5-specific goodies. | | No for 5.0.x, as nearly everything in my list requires API breakage :( | For now, I don't have any JDK 1.5 features in mind: this item is there | just in case.
In my opinion, it is very bad to require the -latest- JDK there is for such low-level "software-stack-components" as the Servlet Container is. I mean, the 1.5 (5.0) isn't even released! There should at least be a couple of viable JDKs of a particular version, before you intend to depend Tomcat on it (e.g. when IBM, SUN, JRockit and a couple of others (!) have a J2SDK 5.0-version out, you might consider it). Any depedencies on 1.5 should -most definately- be done using introspection or configurable "1.5 classes" that you can add if you want. IMHO, I think you should make Tomcat run perfectly, and actually develop it, on 1.3. Endre PS: What an IDIOTIC versioning scheme Sun is using!! What on earth is the idea with "Java -2-", and then upping the minor-versioning to -5-?? "Java 2 version 5.0".. WHAT??? It actually pisses me off - can't we just say "Java 5", then? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
