Well, I write classloaders for fun, so if a handful of us get together and coordinate on this, then we've got what we need. My major impediment is not having superior experience with the FOP source as a whole, so if someone would like to step forward as the "integration person" on a subproject like this, then we might have what we need.
-----Original Message----- From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fop and JDK1.2 Rhett, I was originally thinking along the lines you have suggested. In fact, I have been vaguley thinking along these lines for some time, triggered by the build contortions we have seen in the past. My preference is to sort out as much as possible (and feasible) at run-time. However, because I have no experience in the complexities of class loaders, etc, I was loathe to suggest it. I'm with you in trying to alleviate as much of the burden as possible for users. At the end of the day, the product that is the easiest to set up and use has a huge advantage. Ask Microsoft. Peter Rhett Aultman wrote: > Peter, > > Rather than building multiple version dependant JARs and having users select the best one, perhaps we could, behind an interface that effectively hides the issue, detect the version of the VM being run and dynamically load appropriate handler classes? This alleviates the burden of users selecting appropriate JARs. > > As you said, it does increase complexity, and the only case we're dealing with thus far can be solved in other ways, but I suspect that this is a problem that's only going to grow over time as we find other JVM version (and *VENDOR*) inconsistancies. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest "Lord, to whom shall we go?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
