Thomas Dudziak wrote:
Before we do the interface extraction, I'd like to discuss the
objectives. For example, I think typed returns from collection-valued
methods are easier to use and more robust than untyped returns. In the
Table class, there are e.g. Set getColumns() which I'd prefer
Set<Column> if we think it's ok to support only JDK 5, or Column[ ]
getColumns() or if the objective is to support earlier versions of JDK.
Java 5-only is not possible as DdlUtils is meant to be used by OJB and
Torque which both have a minimum requirement of Java 2 (1.2).
I agree that Java 5 will inhibit the possibility to re-use DdlUtils for
many other Apache projects, however I think that at least for OJB it
has been voted (or at least informally decided) to drop support for JDK1.2.
I propose that DdlUtils set J2SE 1.3 as minimum requirement, so that
we don't have to deal with any (rather ancient...) 1.2 issues.
If Torque still has 1.2-support I would rather like to see a vote for
that support beeing dropped in an upcoming release, in preparation for
DdlUtils-use. Since I guess the integration will take quite some time
I think there is a big enough "timeslot" to ask the userbase and discuss
among the developers.
What say the Torque people?
Regards,
Martin
