We are contemplating moving our application to 1.4. We are currently at 1.3.1_03. We have a large 3-tier application which makes heavy use of JDBC/ODBC, RMI and Swing.
Questions for those who have made the move. Are the performance gains noticeable for Swing and RMI? Are there any general pitfalls to watch for? Are there issues with use of jar files such as mail.jar, activation.jar and other 3rd party jar files? I am fuzzy on whether we can use these jar files as they are downloaded or whether we need to compile the source under 1.4 and create the jar files. We have just installed 1.4 on one of the development PCs and tried our first compile. Everything compiled without errors although there are some deprecation warnings. The server app seems to start OK. We can start the client app but when we login, which causes the first communication to the server app, we get a malformed URL Exception. We obviously don't have such a problem under 1.3. Has anyone experienced a similar issue? To change your membership options, refer to: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm
