Re: Anyone still using JDK 1.3?

[Aaron Knauf]

Unfortunately, those of us who work for large companies don't have the 
luxury of a viewpoint such as this.  A company with a large IT 
infrastructure is often not as quick on its feet as we would like it to 
be.  It can take years to upgrade to a new version of a software 
product, depending on how important the move is perceived to be by those 
at the top.

As for running both JDK's on your servers, this is not as easy as it 
sounds.  Yes, it is technically easy - but getting JDK 1.4 onto an HP-UX 
box means patching the OS to the recommended minimum level, which means 
re-testing everything on that box, which means taking down a production 
box, running all sorts of critical applications, for a good chunk of 
time.  Not something that is easy to get past the network ops team.

I think that the best approach for now is to do as Steve and Vincenzo 
suggest and aim to move to 1.4 for James 3.0.  In addition to this, a 
stream should be left open for development (or at least maintenance) of 
James on 1.3.1.

Cheers

ADK



Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote:

To Daniel and Noel (and everyone else)

We have moved on to 1.4. I do not really see how moving forward can be a
problem; if people have applications which require a JDK 1.3 they can
always run both a JDK 1.3 and a JDK 1.4 on their server, and have the
old applications run on the 1.3 and James on the 1.4.
Since James is an open source project dependant on volunteer developers,
and since 1.4 has many helpful features, wouldn't it be best to provide
the developers with the best platform possible? I think that giving the
developers the best possible development environment is good for the
productivity in any project. Unfortunately I myself is not a James
developer, but I have been a 1.4 developer for a long time, and I for
one would definitely not like to step back to 1.3.
Randahl 

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Joshua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 3. juli 2003 07:43
To: 'James Users List'
Subject: RE: Anyone still using JDK 1.3?

I think it is best to leave it still compatible to JDK 1.3.1 minimum...

not everyone has moved to JDK 1.4 due to conflict with other
applications...
Regards,
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 03 July, 2003 1:28 PM
To: James-User Mailing List
Subject: Anyone still using JDK 1.3?
James still supports JDK 1.3, but lately we're wondering if anyone still
cares.  If you are still using JDK prior to JDK 1.4.0, please let us
know.
	--- Noel

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