Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-db-derby-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 20564 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2005 20:31:25 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 22 Apr 2005 20:31:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 45384 invoked by uid 500); 22 Apr 2005 20:31:52 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-db-derby-dev-archive@db.apache.org Received: (qmail 45336 invoked by uid 500); 22 Apr 2005 20:31:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact derby-dev-help@db.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "Derby Development" Delivered-To: mailing list derby-dev@db.apache.org Received: (qmail 45318 invoked by uid 99); 22 Apr 2005 20:31:51 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (hermes.apache.org: local policy) Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com (HELO e6.ny.us.ibm.com) (32.97.182.146) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.28) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:31:51 -0700 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3MKVIi7004435 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:31:18 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id j3MKTqf9079552 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:31:18 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3MKTqWv008561 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:29:52 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (DMCSDJDT41P.usca.ibm.com [9.72.133.53]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3MKTpGg008502 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:29:52 -0400 Message-ID: <42695EBD.4010106@debrunners.com> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:29:49 -0700 From: Daniel John Debrunner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derby Development Subject: Re: Sun, Java and BigDecimal incompatible changes in J2SE 5.0 References: <42681FB3.8010206@debrunners.com> <42695415.60006@Sun.COM> In-Reply-To: <42695415.60006@Sun.COM> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N David Van Couvering wrote: > Hi, Dan, still tracking this down, but I had to smile -- the first level > answer I got back from the J2SE folks was that these changes were made > as part of JSR13, which was driven by IBM. Maybe you should find the > guys behind JSR13 and give them an earful :) I've been asking them as well. Regardless the J2SE 5.0 documentation should be updated to list the binary incompatibilities. I guess it's good that these are the first I can remember for Java, so all in all it's been a good platform for binary compatibility since JDK 1.1. Dan.