My quick 2 cents about retroweaver and retrotranslator having used retroweaver a fair bit and just heard of retrotranslator. Looking at the retorotranslator it looks like it does more to support jdk 5 features in jdk 1.4. It looks like you can access annotations in a jdk 1.4 environment which was not supported retroweaver the last time I used it...
On 9/6/07, Arthur Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I personally hate having to support such an old JDK version, and I have > tried to use the newer JDKs when possible. > > That being said, a client of one of my clients is a super large company > that can throw their weight around, and they refuse to get off JDK 1.4 for > some reason. (perceived stability I guess.) > > I know of another large banking company that has just made the move from > JDK 1.3 to 1.4 (no joke.) > > It's up to you... but if you maintain active JDK 1.4 compatibility, it can > only help to get Logback used by a wider audience. > > I also was thinking about using Logback on one of the above projects where > I'm stuck on JDK 1.4, and the less support you have for it, the less > inclined I would be to go down that route. > > The way I approach this on log4jdbc is to actually have two source trees > (one for jdk1.4 & jdk 1.5/ jdbc 3 and one for jdk 1.6 & jdk 1.7 / jdbc 4.) > This is a pain, but I can get away with it because it's such a small > library. > > In my case it's a little bit different, but same principle. > If I were to suddenly drop support for JDBC 3, maybe I'm wrong, but I > think that almost nobody would use log4jdbc, because there is hardly any > industry support for JDBC 4 yet at this point. > > By the way, "retroweaver" is a new one for me-- is it as good as/the same > as the "retrotranslater" that is used for the same purpose? > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ceki Gulcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2007 1:29:50 PM > Subject: [logback-user] Interest in JDK 1.4 builds? > > Hello all, > > Logback includes retro-weaver generated jars for JDK 1.4. However, > there seems to be little interest in these JDK 1.4 jars. Calling > retro-weaver increases logback's build time by a few seconds -- > seconds in which we can do more productive things. > > So, is there any interest in the JDK 1.4 build of logback? If not, I > intend to remove JDK 1.4 support in logback for the next release. > > Cheers, > > -- > Ceki Gülcü > Logback: The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for > Java. > http://logback.qos.ch > _______________________________________________ > Logback-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user > > > ------------------------------ > Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=47093/*http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222>to > see what's on, when. > > _______________________________________________ > Logback-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user > >
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