Tim Funk wrote: > After looking at the older revisions, I agree my patch was stupendously > horrible :( > > The patch now uses reflection to keep the current code equivalent for > jdk14 and use the old way in case of a jdk1.3 jvm. > > That being said - I would assume that the RMI issue your patch addressed > would still be an issue in JDK1.3. Can you give me some insight on what > it was? If possible I can attempt to make the appropriate fix. > > I think commons-dbcp project do some wacky magic on java src files ( > poor man's equivalent of c directives for code include/exclude). Is that > an alternative to move towards for situations like this? Or is having > one and only one binary the a better goal? (So users don't need to > choose a 1.3 and 1.4 binary)
Oh, NO. Please don't even think about it.... Commons-dbcp must do it because it is impossible to write a JDBC driver that works and compiles in both 1.3 and 1.4. Reflection is fine - I would preffer using a jdkCompat-like trick and have substitute code for 1.3, but I'm fine with reflection. Costin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
