RE: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-17 Thread Danny Angus
> These late adopters will be late adopters of a future version of James too. > Which is fine. They are free to be as cautious as they see fit. Not necessarily, If they are late adopters because of the ££Cost of upgrading commercial products, and associated support contracts, the same constr

RE: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-17 Thread Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini
> On Wednesday 16 June 2004 21:21, Serge Knystautas wrote: > > Steve Brewin wrote: > > > Anyway, before we dwell too much on the future, a big thanks to everyone > > > who helped in getting this release out, especially Noel who has spent so > > > much time painstakingly putting it all together. > >

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-17 Thread Soren Hilmer
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 21:21, Serge Knystautas wrote: > Steve Brewin wrote: > > Anyway, before we dwell too much on the future, a big thanks to everyone > > who helped in getting this release out, especially Noel who has spent so > > much time painstakingly putting it all together. > > +1! Actu

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-16 Thread Serge Knystautas
Steve Brewin wrote: Anyway, before we dwell too much on the future, a big thanks to everyone who helped in getting this release out, especially Noel who has spent so much time painstakingly putting it all together. +1! -- Serge Knystautas Lokitech >> software . strategy . design >> http://www.lokit

RE: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-16 Thread Steve Brewin
> From: Danny Angus wrote: > > Back in December 2002 the primary J2EE servers (BEA WebLogic and IBM > > WebSphere) used by the larger institutions required JDK 1.3.x and I > argued > > we should too. Current releases of BEA WebLogic and IBM > WebSphere require > > JDK 1.4.x and I would now argue t

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-16 Thread Serge Knystautas
Danny Angus wrote: I'm in favour of making this change, but only if our users don't raise any objection. Which we will only find out if we ask them. There's been one response from a user to this thread so far. I don't think anyone would object if you moved this thread to the user list. -- Serge Kn

RE: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-16 Thread Danny Angus
> Back in December 2002 the primary J2EE servers (BEA WebLogic and IBM > WebSphere) used by the larger institutions required JDK 1.3.x and I argued > we should too. Current releases of BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere require > JDK 1.4.x and I would now argue that this should be our minimum.

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Serge Knystautas
Steve Brewin wrote: Back in December 2002 the primary J2EE servers (BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere) used by the larger institutions required JDK 1.3.x and I argued we should too. Current releases of BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere require JDK 1.4.x and I would now argue that this should be our mini

RE: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Steve Brewin
(Ought to be JDK 1.3 or 1.4 redux) This was an issue thrashed over in December 2002. My main argument then remains my main argument now. Larger institutions are very conservative in moving JDKs. If we feel that they are or could be a significant part of the user base we should not freeze them out

RE: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > Our code currently presumes something of a pull-model, and would > > need some changes. The best approach would be to support both > > socket I/O and selector I/O. > Therein lies the problem though... since they are different models, > it's non-trivial to support both. If we do the work to s

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Serge Knystautas
Noel J. Bergman wrote: NIO: This is a technology we could have if we upgraded to JDK 1.4. I'm not sure what you mean... we are not using it since we cannot use it Architecturally, we would have to change. Our code currently presumes something of a pull-model, and would need some changes. The bes

RE: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> NIO: This is a technology we could have if we upgraded to JDK 1.4. I'm > not sure what you mean... we are not using it since we cannot use it Architecturally, we would have to change. Our code currently presumes something of a pull-model, and would need some changes. The best approach would b

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Serge Knystautas
Noel J. Bergman wrote: There's NIO, built in JNDI DNS library, TLS capabilities. What about requiring 1.4 for james 3.0? We aren't using NIO, yet, there is no support for TLS with NIO in JDK 1.4 (requires JDK 1.*5*), we have better DNS support from dnsjava, and we already have TLS in the current c

RE: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> There's NIO, built in JNDI DNS library, TLS capabilities. What about > requiring 1.4 for james 3.0? We aren't using NIO, yet, there is no support for TLS with NIO in JDK 1.4 (requires JDK 1.*5*), we have better DNS support from dnsjava, and we already have TLS in the current code. Not seeing a

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Carlos Cortés del Valle
Hi. I'm a James user and I think you don't need ask your user. Windows users are threatened continously with new viruses because 90% of them do never update their systems. If you think the best for James is updating to JVM 1.4, excellent :) Also, you must remember old JVM versions had security

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Serge Knystautas
Danny Angus wrote: There's NIO, built in JNDI DNS library, TLS capabilities. What about requiring 1.4 for james 3.0? +1 What about asking our users to see if we have an issue or not first?? I'm not saying to avoid their input, but not treat it as the basis for the decision. Similarly, if we made

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Danny Angus
> I know Danny is stuck with JDK 1.3. :) I'm not stuck with 1.3 actually, but I know that people are, and understand why. > There's NIO, built in JNDI DNS library, TLS capabilities. What about > requiring 1.4 for james 3.0? > +1 What about asking our users to see if we have an issue or no

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Soren Hilmer
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 15:19, Serge Knystautas wrote: > Danny Angus wrote: > > I think we'd need to poll our users explicitly first. > > There are still good reasons for not doing so unless we really *need* to. > > > > -1 (It is not a good indication) > > I know Danny is stuck with JDK 1.3. :) >

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Serge Knystautas
Danny Angus wrote: I think we'd need to poll our users explicitly first. There are still good reasons for not doing so unless we really *need* to. -1 (It is not a good indication) I know Danny is stuck with JDK 1.3. :) There's NIO, built in JNDI DNS library, TLS capabilities. What about requirin

RE: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Danny Angus
I think we'd need to poll our users explicitly first. There are still good reasons for not doing so unless we really *need* to. -1 (It is not a good indication) d. > Could it be an indicator that we can move on to requiring 1.4, that would be > nice. > > --Søren +1 :-) Vincenzo ---

RE: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini
> On Monday 14 June 2004 23:05, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > As you can probably tell, I just tweaked CVS to include the final release > > versions of DBCP and Pool. The only change between what we have now and > > what we used for testing is trivial removal (a few lines, which were > > carefully ve

Re: Here comes the release ...

2004-06-15 Thread Soren Hilmer
On Monday 14 June 2004 23:05, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > As you can probably tell, I just tweaked CVS to include the final release > versions of DBCP and Pool. The only change between what we have now and > what we used for testing is trivial removal (a few lines, which were > carefully vetted by ha

Here comes the release ...

2004-06-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
As you can probably tell, I just tweaked CVS to include the final release versions of DBCP and Pool. The only change between what we have now and what we used for testing is trivial removal (a few lines, which were carefully vetted by hand) of some JDK 1.4 dependencies. It is interesting to note