On 12/1/05, Nicolas De Loof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can't this dependency be solved using jdbc2.0-stdext.jar ? I'm using > >> Jdk 1.3 and cannot upgrade. Not supporting 1.3 anymore will stop my > >> migration to commons-configuration. > >> > >> Nico. > >> > > > > Yes, with jdbc2.0-stdext.jar commons-configuration can be compiled and > > run under a JDK 1.3. > > > > Unfortunately this jar cannot be distributed via ibiblio because of > > licence issues, which makes the build a bit unconvenient. But I guess > > I will have to update the pom to declare this dependency because > > DatabaseConfiguration needs the DataSource interface. Would be a good > > idea to update documentation in this respect, too. > > > > Oliver > > AFAIK, other apache projects require sun jars to compile. You may ask > commons-dbcp commiters that seem to have the same requirement : > " > <!-- Note JDBC 2.0 is a pain, because it must be manually > downloaded to your Maven repository, and it's not even > required on JDK 1.4. Maybe we should remove it from > this dependency list so Maven doesn't choke? > --> > <dependency> > <id>jdbc</id> > <version>2.0</version> > </dependency> > "
It would be neater if something could be done in the maven.xml to detect JDK 1.3 and add it into the class path from a property specified in the build.properties. I'm going to face the same issue in Commons Resources - we have 1 class that relies on JDBC 2. Niall --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
