Yes, please don't force us to JDK 1.2 yet.
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> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:04:43 -0400
> From: Paul Philion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [SERVLET-INTEREST] Servlet spec 2.3 requires Java 1.2
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Greetings...
>
> I was just looking over the new Servlet 2.3 spec. Something jumped
> right out at me:
>
> Requirement of JDK 1.2 as the underlying platform for web
> containers
> (page 12)
>
> I reviewed the document briefly, but I could only find two other
> references to JDK 1.2:
>
> A Servlet Container may place security restrictions on the
> environment that a servlet executes in. In a Java 2 Platform
> Standard Edition 1.2 (J2SE) or Java 2 Platform Enterprise
> Edition 1.3 (J2EE) environment, these restrictions should
> be placed using the permission architecture defined by
> Java 2 Platform.
> (page 19)
>
> In servlet containers that are running in a Java 2 Standard
> Edition, v 1.2 or Java 2 Enterprise Edition, v 1.2
> environment, if there is an SSL certificate associated with
> the request, it must be exposed to the servlet programmer
> as an array of objects of type java.security.cert.X509Certificate
> and accessible via a ServletRequest attribute of
> javax.servlet.request.X509Certificate.
> (page 36)
>
> Both of these seem simply to say that *if* you're running the
> container in 1.2, not require it.
>
> I reviewed the new APIs (again, briefly), and I found the following
> references to JDK 1.2 objects:
>
> FilterConfig
> public java.util.Iterator getFilters()
>
> ServletRequest
> public java.util.Map getParameterMap()
>
> ServletRequestWrapper
> public java.util.Map getParameterMap()
>
> This led me to conclude that the servlet specification now relies on
> Java 1.2!
>
> I recommend that the references to Interator and Map above be changed
> to Enumeration and Dictionary. I recommend that the requirement for
> Java 1.2 be *removed* from the spec.
>
> There will be a time when Servlets will rely on the 1.2 Collections,
> but I further recommend that that be held of until a complete revision
> of the servlet spec i.e. a 3.0 specification.
>
> - Paul Philion
>
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