On 13.05.2005 11:00:21 Gregory Block wrote: > On 12 May 2005, at 16:49, Matthew D. Fleming wrote:
> > We use WAS 4.0 and Castor which uses a 1.2 JDK. We can't upgrade > > the app server for a variety of reasons in any short period of > > time. I vote for some form of conditional compilation. > > > Personally? Jettison everything but 1.5, that's my opinion. But I'm > an extreme case; and I fully expect that to be an unreasonable > statement. In my guts, though, I'm of the opinion that there's an > awful lot of improvements, even in 1.3, and building backwards- > compatible implementations just can't be the best use of developer > time. I ask that people seriously and sincerely consider whether > they should expect that the product should always support 1.2. Sun is currently maintaining the 1.4 and 1.5 branches of JDKs. Java Version 1.3.1 is currently in it's "end of life" stage since 10/2004. So as far as we are concerned, any older compatibility could be dropped. Regards, Martin
