Hi everyone.
The following mostly affects users of the Java version of iBATIS, but it's always nice to keep our C# friends in the loop.
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that iBATIS is
very popular and in August we served up over 1,000,000 of the
sql-map-2.dtd. Most versions of iBATIS actually resolve the DTD
from the JAR file, so
most of these hits are likely from IDEs and other tools/parsers that
are making use of the DTD.
The bad news is that this is unfortunately starting to cost me money in bandwith overcharges. :-)
Therefore this is a perfect opportunity to change. This will be a three step process:
1) If you haven't done so already, you should switch to use the DTD
URLs found here http://ibatis.apache.org/dtd/ (i.e. NOT the ones
at ibatis.com).
2) If you haven't done so already, you should upgrade your iBATIS
version to the latest, to ensure that your DTDs resolve from the JAR
files.
3) The by November 30, 2005, the DTDs will cease to be available at ibatis.com, and will only be available from
http://ibatis.apache.org/dtd/
So let's celebrate our success by making the switch to using the DTDs hosted by Apache.
Of course if you see serious issue with this, please let me know.
Best regards,
Clinton Begin
