Hi all,
for the planned integration with Apache MINA, we must make a choice on
what Java versions to support. MINA uses NIO for socket handling and NIO
only supports SSL from Java 1.5. MINA 1.0 therefore has a seperate
module for supporting SSL, while the remaining parts are compiled with 1.4.
Moving to NIO and MINA will most certainly increase the scalability of
FtpServer significantly as we will no longer have one client, one thread
relationship.
The way I understand it we have the following options:
1. Move all of FtpServer to require Java 1.5.
2. Move out the SSL support into its own module, only support SSL with
Java 1.5, while regular FTP is supported from 1.4.
3. Don't move to MINA, continue supporting 1.4.
I'm clearly for option 1, I think that 1.5 has been out for long enough
and many other servers (like Tomcat and Geronimo) now requires 1.5. I
think option 2 would be unnecessarily complex for users to figure out.
What do you think? I'm just starting with the MINA stuff and need to
know if anyone still needs 1.4 support.
/niklas
