Dave Roberts wrote:
It was 01/01/2007 15:52, when Niklas Gustavsson wrote:
What do you think? I'm just starting with the MINA stuff and need to
know if anyone still needs 1.4 support.
Yes, I still need 1.4 support. Although 1.5 has been around for a
while, it doesn't appear to have penetrated the market enough (for
us) to jump to it. Some of our customers not on the main stream OSs
are still using Java 1.4, sometimes because of lack of support in
the OS.
I certainly don't like option 2 :) My main reason for using and
getting involved in this project is the SSL support.
So at this point I would have to vote for option 3, don't move to
MINA, but I realise I could be in a minority here.
Thinking about it, there might be a reasonable fourth option. I recently
introduced a Listener interface. A listener is the thing that listens on
the ServerSocket and kicks of new threads (RequestHandlers). The
original idea behind this was to enable listening on multiple ports, for
example to have clear text FTP on port 21 and FTPS on some other port.
Now I'm thinking that we might be able to hack up a MINA listener. This
new listener could be the default option, with the possibility to
configure to use the 1.4 compliant if needed.
To make this forth option look good, I will need to further refactor out
stuff from RequestHandler, but that's something I'm planning to do anyways.
/niklas
