> So, on my way to working on patches for the dependancy of Slide on the
> Java2-only collections, I ran into two other bugs. It doesn't seem that
either
> should be too hard to fix.
>
> 1. This is a configuration thing, not a code problem. The build.sh script
is
> hardwired to look for the existence of the file $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar .
The
> problem is that this file will not necessarily exist on every Java-enabled
> platform. In this particular case, I'm running MacOS X Public Beta (which
has
> J2SE 1.2), and the set of jars is different.
>
> The better thing to do would be to determined whether the javac class can
be
> found. My (hopefully temporary!) workaround was to symlink the jar
containing
> the javac class to the expected location of tools.jar.
I think I'll just remove the test, then. The build script was cut and pasted
from an old TC build script (I'm not using javac in Slide anyway).
> 2. There is a J2SE 1.3 dependency in at least the following place:
>
>
jakarta-slide/src/webdav/client/src/org/apache/webdav/lib/WebdavClient.java:
282:
> Method shutdownOutput() not found in class java.net.Socket
>
> This method was introduced in 1.3, and does not exist in the earlier
versions
> which Slide purports to support.
I had reports of problems with that call.
I now use reflection, but unfortunately that means that some HTTP/1.0 calls
(those with a request body and which do not specify a content length) will
fail when not running on JDK 1.3, depending on how the server behaves.
If anyone could suggest a workaround, that would be great.
Remy
