Hi Venkat, On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 11:04 +0530, Venkat Narayana, Noida wrote: > Dear Members, > > we are using Commons-lang version 2.0 in our project. Recently my > management took a decision to migrate the application from websphere 4.0 to > websphere 6.0. I have a few queries regarding the compatabily of the > Commons-lang freeware on the new platform. could you please provide this > information? > > 1.Is Commons-lang version 2.0 compatible with websphere6.0 or JDK 1.4 or > J2EE 1.4?
If Websphere doesn't depend on commons-lang itself, then I can't imagine there being any problem. If Websphere does depend on commons-lang for its own implementation then there might be a problem if you try to use a different version. As I don't use Websphere I can't tell you whether it uses lang or not; obviously you can check this easily enough with a quick directory search through a Websphere install. > > 2. Do you provide commercial support for this version of Commons-lang . or > else can you give me the details of any third party that provide commercial > support for this version of Commons-lang . The Apache Software Foundation doesn't offer "support contracts" of any sort. The commons email lists have a large number of helpful and talented people subscribed to them, so any technical questions you have are likely to be answered pretty quickly but there are no contractual guarantees. The commons-lang code is fairly simple; as long as you have competent java programmers available you should be able to address any issues yourselves; the source is of course freely available and the build/test procedures are simple and well documented. Ask one of your in-house developers to download the source and have a look. For commercial support, you could perhaps talk to covalent (www.covalent.net). Alternatively, I'm pretty sure that JBoss and IBM both offer products that use commons-lang so I expect they can offer support (though they might be a tad expensive). I'm sure there are hundreds of other companies that can offer support if needed; one of the great benefits of open source is that support is not limited to the original author of the code (though of course you do need to be a bit more careful determining who is competent to provide that support). However I wouldn't recommend looking for a support contract just for lang; the probability of encountering an issue is low and the code isn't large or complicated so dealing with it yourselves (with the help of the people on this list) is probably the best solution. > > 3. Can you provide information on the user base for this freeware. or any > website links where I can get the information. Sorry, don't have any exact links I can give you but it is very widely used. > > 4. If we have any problem regarding Commons-lang version 2.0 dependancies > issues can we contact you? You are always welcome to post questions to this list. If you're confident that you have found a bug that needs addressing then you can also file that in the issue tracker (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG). Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
