On 7/2/08, Niall Pemberton <niall.pemberton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Brosnan, Michael
> <michael.brosnan@fmr.com> wrote:
> >
> > The date for JDK 1.4 bing EOL is October 2008, see
> > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/
> >
> > Are there plans in place to update the commons apache components to build
> > with JDK 1.5 instead?
>
>
> Its being done on a component-bycomponent basis. The following list
> may not be complete, but this is the state-of-play that I know of:
>
> 1) Collections - has had a JDK 1.5 branch for quite some time, not
> very active atm
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/collections/branches/collections_jdk5_branch/
>
> 2) Configuration - Version 2.0 branch requires JDK 1.5:
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/configuration/branches/configuration2_experimental/
>
> 3) IO - last release (1.4) was JDK 1.4 compatible, but the current
> trunk (and the next release, probably 2.0) now requires JDK 1.5
>
> 4) Lang - discussed recently on the dev list:
> http://markmail.org/message/k36vrkgupiewg3qx
>
> 5) Math - Version 2.0 branch requires JDK 1.5:
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/math/branches/MATH_2_0/
>
> 6) Net - Version 2.0 branch requires JDK 1.5:
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/net/branches/NET_2_0/
>
> 7) SCXML - J6 branch requires JDK 1.6
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/scxml/branches/J6/
>
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Thanks for producing the list :-)
And ofcourse, if anyone is interested in a moving a particular
component to 1.5+, please hop on to the Commons dev list, and start
the discussion over there.
-Rahul
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