I think you may have misread what Howard proposed.
4.0 is and will be 1.4 compatible.
He's speculating about 4.1.
--- Pat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darío Vasconcelos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:59 PM
> To: Tapestry users
> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] JDK 1.5 for Tapestry 4.1?
>
> I'm just a small-time development shop in a third-world country, but
> in my current work environment (Oracle IAS and WAS 5 mostly, some
> Tomcats) it will take ages for my customers to upgrade to JDK 1.4
> -capable app servers. Except for the Tomcat installations, they're
> still on 1.3...
>
> This would mean for me no TP4, and though I'm perfectly happy with
> 3.0.3, there are plenty of improvements in version 4 that I would be
> missing. Now, is the latest 4.0.x version stable enough for
> production? I've been following the list closely but it's a little bit
> difficult to evaluate how buggy it **really** is...
>
>
> On 12/20/05, Jason Suplizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We don't have the flexibility to make a quick migration between JDK
> > versions. As a result, mandating 1.5 might force us to completely
> > reevaluate our framework decision. This is really unfortunate as I
> > personally prefer 1.5 and love Tapestry.
> >
> >
> > On 12/20/05, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > >
> > > With Tapestry 4.0 winding down, some of us are already looking forward
> > > to Tapestry 4.1.
> > >
> > > Now, we would hope that 4.1 will not have as long a life cycle as 4.0,
> > > which was 50% too long. I would hope for a final 4.1 by Q3 2006.
> > >
> > > One thing that I, personally, would like would be to start re-working
> > > the APIs to make use of JDK 1.5 annotations and generics. Unlike the
> > > add-one annotation support in Tapestry 4.0, this would MANDATE JDK 1.5
> > > for development and production.
> > >
> > > This is obviously a contentious issue, so I'm asking people to look
> > > into their personal crystal ball and see what they and they're
> > > organization will look like by next summer, in terms of JDK adoption.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Howard M. Lewis Ship
> > > Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant
> > > Creator, Jakarta Tapestry
> > > Creator, Jakarta HiveMind
> > >
> > > Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support
> > > and project work. http://howardlewisship.com
> > >
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