Yes - I would agree that 1.3 support is probably not worth the trouble. I'd rather see it use features of the newer JDK's like NIO for better performance and scalability.
Gary -----Original Message----- From: Sergey Vladimirov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Minimal supported JDK level Hi, Niklas, It is sad to see how many people want to aswer your letters ;( My opinion - we don't need to support 1.3, as soon as 1.5 is two yeas old already. Current release Apache Tomcat requires 1.5. Sergey 2006/8/1, Niklas Gustavsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi all, > > do you have any opinion regarding what's the minimal JDK level that > FtpServer should support? Right now we don't compile on 1.3, but do > compile on 1.4. The reason for not compiling on 1.3 is missing JSSE and > XML libs (these can be added at the JDK level) and a couple of calls to > Calendar.setTimeInMillis(). > > Personally I don't have a strong opinion beyond that it would be nice to > support 1.3+extlibs if we need not to compromise with functionality. > > /niklas > > -- Sergey Vladimirov
