Mikhail Loenko wrote:
It's not too late to think about it once again and probably revisit
the decision.
BTW, I don't think of this as a blanket rule-of-law, but rather a
guideline, a motivation for how we make decisions on a bug-by-bug or
issue-by-issue basis.
As I understand goal #1 is to meet needs of as many potential users as we can
and decision to be spec incompatible in favor of new hot RI version might be not
the best one.
I think I agree :)
geir
Thanks,
Mikhail
2006/4/11, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I think that people will steadily move up in versions, and maybe most
importantly, we *are* trying to build Java SE 5, not J2SE 1.4...
geir
Mikhail Loenko wrote:
BTW, when we were deciding that we follow RI rather then the spec, we
cared about breaking existing implementations. But if RI changed its behavior
from being compatible to the spec in 1.4 to being incompatible in 1.5 then do
we believe that existing applications more likely stick to the latest
(1.5) version?
Or if the spec is ambiguous and RI changed behavior from 1.4 to 1.5?
Example JIRA-266 and "Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-266)
java.security.Signature.getInstance(String,Provider) should match 5.0
reference implementations behaviour" mail thread.
Thanks,
Mikhail
2006/4/11, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Paulex Yang wrote:
Mark
You just point out a serious issue ;-) . The RI is just a concept, in
fact we have many RIs, Sun's JDK, BEA's JDK, even different versions,
Sun JDK 1.5.0, 1.5.0.04, 1.5.0.06...(even more in future I expects), and
on different platforms(win32, linux32, still even more in future)...In
fact sometimes they have different behavior themselves, it is very
reasonable that 1.5.06 fix some bugs of 1.5.0, so that some different
exceptions thrown(more reasonable IAE instead of NPE, for example), or
more seriously, different results returned... Samples are available upon
request:).
Actually, there only is one RI for any given spec, and in this case, I
guess we judge it to be the latest version of a spec that comes from
Sun? (The question isn't if it comes from Sun - as the spec lead, they
supply the RI - but rather what version...)
geir
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