At 11:45 AM -0700 5/10/01, Jon Stevens wrote:
>Oh come on. Upgrade your JDK. You have had warning that the support would go
>away.
>
>JDK 1.2 has been out for *years* now and is supported on all the major
>platforms except MacOS9.
Not very helpful.
There are *deployment* situations where it is not possible to upgrade the JDK.
For example, some software written in Java might have dependencies on
a particular JDK and not be certified to work in newer JDKs.
I realize that a *warning* was given...
But...
I'm questioning what is gained by making Jakarta-Ora *not* compatible
with JDK 1.1?
Switching from Vector to ArrayList hardly seems like a *reason*.
I could understand the reliance on JDK 1.2 if there was a compelling
reason... like performance... some class that was in 1.2 that was
absolutely necessary.
But we are talking a regex package here.
Most C based regex packages are done with just C.
I'd find it hard to believe that Oro must rely on 1.2.
Haven't you ever run into a deployment situation where you were stuck
with an older version of a dev system or dependent libraries?
It happens.
It can happen a lot.
mark
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