For what it's worth - I agree with this position....sorry for the implied
work.
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Subject: Re: JESS: JDK 1.1 support in Jess 6
> Hello-
>
> I suppose I'll be the dissenting vote, here, or at least more aggressive.
>
> Dynamic proxy support in 1.3 is what fixes most of the reflection problems
> left in 1.2. The use of this could really benefit those who are using
> event listeners from Swing or custom classes. Right now, it is terribly
> difficult to work around some of these problems. Being able to implement
> an interface on the fly is incredible, and absolutely necessary when you
> realize you need it.
>
> I think that keeping in mind that Jess 6 won't be out for quite a while,
> and that 1.3 is rapidly becoming the "officially" supported JDK, it would
> be wise to start planning for it.
>
> The 1.3 JDK also includes HotSpot, which I can see really helping out JESS
> users in many situations. There is good incentive for most projects to
> move to 1.3, even if 1.3 features aren't being used.
>
> This all being said, I think that most of Jess could be written to use
> only 1.2 features, and that 1.3 feature use could probably be fairly well
> contained. Looking at the independent Beanshell project, exactly this
> approach was taken. Only a few lines needed to be changed in order to
> compile under 1.2. But if you happen to use a 1.3 compiled jar under
> a 1.2 runtime, it still works except for the features that require 1.3.
>
> Sun has already announced 1.4 will be available near the end of 2001. I
> know that seems far ahead into the future, but it does suggest that it is
> important to stay as current as possible. The upcoming year will
> probably be dominated by 1.3, so let's use it. The stability of Jess 5.x
> should satisfy those who wish/need to stay behind.
>
> -Dave Barnett
>
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