Please make sure "target=1.3" is present in all javac tasks :-)
Shouldn't we support only JRE 1.4 and 5.0 instead ? I would be able to replace jakarta-regexp use with Java regexp. Obviously people who don't want to upgrade (ex: I saw a really funny thread on tomcat-user about a guy who wants JMX runtime stats on 4.1.x, like the ones that were in 5.0.x) aren't going to upgrade to this new branch, because of API breakage.
I'm using 1.3 most of the time, there is a _lot_ of software out there that doesn't work in jdk1.4 and won't work in jdk1.5 either. Not to mention companies having policies and supporting only one VM ( so they
don't have to deal with all the incompatibilities between versions ).
I'm personally -1 on droping support for 1.3 ( well, I would be +1 on supporting J2ME or 1.1 as a baseline :-).
Even compiling software with jdk1.5 or loading it in an IDE is problematic.
I think we should value stability more than featurism - and value flexibility and modularity more than bloat. There are people who have
problems with the Sun/Microsoft policy of bundling features in order to
reduce competition ( logging, mx4j/jbossmx, jakarta-regexp, parser, etc ). Especially when those features are hard to replace with better implementations ( even if they implement an API and have some convoluted "endorsed" setting to replace ).
Costin
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