On 3/12/06, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Ziants wrote: > > Constraints of my new project say that I have to use jdk 1.3.2 > > (otherwise I would gladly move it to Java 5). > > > > > > I still want to try and use the latest version of Tomcat (5.5.15 is what > > I have installed), and configure for jre 1.3 .
To my knowledge the jdbc driver for ms express only claims to run with jre 1.4+. I know that the 1.3 constraint is probably some misguided soul thinking that its somehow safer using ye olde versions, in which case there's probably little anyone can do to convince him/her otherwise. You have several choices all of which will mean having a different development envionment to production. Ideally you could see if the existing code runs on 1.4 and move to that. If this isn't possible and you have a staging envionment running MS sql normal and jre 1.3 then develop with 1.4 on your dev machine, and then iron out any potential problems when you stage the application.. Alternatively see if the jdbc driver runs with 1.3 even if the docs wash their hands of any support for such things. tomcat 5.0 stable + java 1.4 should be all stable enough, the java will certainly run faster than 1.3. I cant see any sensible reasons for sticking to 1.3. Mark > > Tomcat 5.5.x requires 1.4 or later. Getting it working with 1.3 will > require source code changes. It shouldn't be impossible but I am not > aware of anyone that has done it. > > You could use 5.0.28 (stable) or 5.0.30 (beta) which only require JDK > 1.3. Be aware that there has been little work on 5.0.x for quite some > time. If you hit a bug there is little chance of it getting fix and > even less of there being another 5.0.x release. > > I guess 4.1.x is an option as well. It's last release was around the > same time as 5.0.28 and it requires JDK 1.2. On the down side it is a > generation older than 5.x but I have been fixing the reported bugs in > 4.1.31 and there is a chance of a 4.1.32 release at some point. > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
