Re: AW: [proposal] avoiding jar version nightmares

2004-12-17 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Sounds pretty good. However, I guess the problem is you can not change the class loader implementation of WebSphere or other commercial stuff :( Oliver On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:16:42 +, Chris Lambrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Microsoft come up with s

Re: AW: [proposal] avoiding jar version nightmares

2004-12-17 Thread Chris Lambrou
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Microsoft come up with some type of solution to DLL hell in Windows 2000 or XP? I seem to recall reading that a long time ago, but I'm not a Windows programmer, so I have no idea. Does anyone else know? The .NET equivalent of a jar file is called an assemb

Re: AW: [proposal] avoiding jar version nightmares

2004-12-17 Thread David Graham
What happens if you merge the jars for each product? For example, put commons 1.x files into productA.jar and commons 2.x files into productB.jar. David --- Daniel Florey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So how should we handle situations where two versions of the same > component > need to coexist

Re: AW: [proposal] avoiding jar version nightmares

2004-12-17 Thread Matt Sgarlata
Daniel Florey wrote: > Any proposals how to solve this issue in another way? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Microsoft come up with some type of solution to DLL hell in Windows 2000 or XP? I seem to recall reading that a long time ago, but I'm not a Windows programmer, so I have no idea. D

RE: AW: [proposal] avoiding jar version nightmares

2004-12-16 Thread Gary Gregory
Packages look like com.some_domain.org.apache.xerces... gg -Original Message- From: Oliver Zeigermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:44 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: AW: [proposal] avoiding jar version nightmares On Thu, 16 Dec 2004

Re: AW: [proposal] avoiding jar version nightmares

2004-12-16 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:09:54 +0100, Daniel Florey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I think we need a solution for this problem. My proposal would be to > allow different major versions of commons components to coexist. If the > class and package names are equal, this is not possible. My package-vers