Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > >> OSGi is fine for containing coursely grained services but avoiding >> spring for configuration and assembly of these services is going to >> make a *lot* of work. > > OSGi is about assemb

RE: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > OSGi is fine for containing coursely grained services but avoiding > spring for configuration and assembly of these services is going to > make a *lot* of work. OSGi is about assembly. What do you have in mind for Spring? And configuration can be pretty nicely han

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-10 Thread David Jencks
On Nov 10, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Norman Maurer asked: Why we would need java 6 ? Which feature you miss in java 5 ? JSR-223, for one. Yes, we could backport using BSF, but deployment would be easier if we went with Java 6. Also, "little features include SSLParameters

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Norman Maurer asked: >> What's wrong with spring ? > > Non-standard and unnecessary. OSGi is the standard. OSGi is fine for containing coursely grained services but avoiding spring for configuration and assembly of t

RE: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Norman Maurer asked: > Why we would need java 6 ? Which feature you miss in java 5 ? JSR-223, for one. Yes, we could backport using BSF, but deployment would be easier if we went with Java 6. Also, "little features include SSLParameters class that encapsulates the configuration of SSL connectio

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Noel J. Bergman ha scritto: >>> i quite fancy experimenting with some stuff (for example OpenJPA) that >>> requires java 5. >> >> I want to see annotations, myself. And favor a move to Java 6, as long as >> we are making

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-10 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Noel J. Bergman ha scritto: >> i quite fancy experimenting with some stuff (for example OpenJPA) that >> requires java 5. > > I want to see annotations, myself. And favor a move to Java 6, as long as > we are making the big switch. > >> following long term strategy: we use the same module system

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-10 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 21:01, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Norman Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/11/10 Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> > following long term strategy: we use the same module system but ship >>> > the phoeni

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-10 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 19:58, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i quite fancy experimenting with some stuff (for example OpenJPA) that >> requires java 5. > > I want to see annotations, myself. And favor a move to Java 6, as long as > we are making the big switch. -1 to Java6 ATM. It

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Norman Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/10 Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > following long term strategy: we use the same module system but ship >> > the phoenix built under 1.4 (without new features) and spring built >> > under 1.5 (with the new

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-10 Thread Norman Maurer
2008/11/10 Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > i quite fancy experimenting with some stuff (for example OpenJPA) that > > requires java 5. > > I want to see annotations, myself. And favor a move to Java 6, as long as > we are making the big switch. Why we would need java 6 ? Which feature y

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> following long term strategy: we use the same module system but ship >> the phoenix built under 1.4 (without new features) and spring built >> under 1.5 (with the new features). > > -1 to Spring. +1 for OSGi. i don'

RE: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-10 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> i quite fancy experimenting with some stuff (for example OpenJPA) that > requires java 5. I want to see annotations, myself. And favor a move to Java 6, as long as we are making the big switch. > following long term strategy: we use the same module system but ship > the phoenix built under 1.4

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-06 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Norman, we should possibly poll the users/dev lists but I > can't believe that 1.4 is still a requirement. we've POLLed the user list and everyone says 1.5 :-) perhaps we should find somewhere to record this on

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-03 Thread Danny Angus
I agree with Norman, we should possibly poll the users/dev lists but I can't believe that 1.4 is still a requirement. d. On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Norman Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I'm very limited in free time atm. So I think the descision should be made > by the a

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-02 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Bernd Fondermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:43, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto: >>> i'm increasingly convinced that the 3.0 codebase contains some >>> compelling reasons to upgrade. i think i

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-02 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:43, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto: >> i'm increasingly convinced that the 3.0 codebase contains some >> compelling reasons to upgrade. i think it's important to offer an >> upgrade path for existing installations including re

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-02 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto: > i'm increasingly convinced that the 3.0 codebase contains some > compelling reasons to upgrade. i think it's important to offer an > upgrade path for existing installations including retaining 1.4 JVM > support. this means preserving 1.4 compatibility in the API

Re: [server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-02 Thread Norman Maurer
Hi Robert, I'm very limited in free time atm. So I think the descision should be made by the active developers. Anyway I think we should drop java 1.4 support at all. I see no real reason to support such old / outdated jvm. Cheers, Norman 2008/11/2 Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > i

[server] Java 5, Spring And Phoenix

2008-11-02 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
i'm increasingly convinced that the 3.0 codebase contains some compelling reasons to upgrade. i think it's important to offer an upgrade path for existing installations including retaining 1.4 JVM support. this means preserving 1.4 compatibility in the API and library layers and in any functions th