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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:01:31 -0700
From: Rick Hillegas <Richard.Hillegas@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Doc notice for JDBC 4 functionality in Derby 10.2
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Hi Jean,

This sounds fine. I was planning on highlighting the license issue in 
the Release Notes anyway.

Regards,
-Rick

Jean T. Anderson wrote:

>how's this for consolidating yours and mine latest:
>
>This documentation references new JDBC 4.0 functionality that is not
>enabled in this Apache Derby 10.2 release because a final Java SE 6
>release was not available when this release was produced. JDBC 3.0 will
>be available by default when used with a Java SE 6 virtual machine. JDBC
>4.0 functionality will only be available to developers who download Java
>SE 6 themselves and with it build Derby's optional JDBC 4.0 support.
>Please see the Release Notes for details on how to build this optional
>JDBC 4.0 functionality. ***Please also note the licensing restrictions
>which limit your use of beta versions of Java SE 6. The beta JDK may
>only be used for evaluation purposes; the same restriction applies to
>Derby's JDBC 4.0 support when built using the beta version of Java SE 6.***
>
>Can we move the portion I highlighted with *** into the release notes
>since developers will have to look at that info to understand how to
>build in jdbc 4? --I don't think we need to be in the business of
>educating users on the license in the reference guide pages I want to
>update.
>
> -jean
>
>
>Rick Hillegas wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Jean,
>>
>>This looks great. I'd like to roll up David's observation and tweek this
>>a bit more:
>>
>>This documentation references new JDBC 4.0 functionality that is not
>>enabled in this Apache Derby 10.2 release because a final Java SE 6
>>release is not available yet. JDBC 3.0 will be available by default when
>>used with Java SE 6. JDBC 4.0 functionality will only be
>>available to developers who download Java SE 6 themselves and
>>with it build Derby's optional JDBC 4.0 support. Please see the Release
>>Notes
>>for details on how to build this optional JDBC 4.0 functionality.
>>Please also note the licensing restrictions which limit your use
>>of beta versions of Java SE 6. The beta JDK may only be used for
>>evaluation purposes; the same restriction applies to Derby's
>>JDBC 4.0 support when built using the beta version of Java SE 6.
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-Rick
>>
>>Jean T. Anderson wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Scratch that first attempt -- already caught an ambiguity. Second try:
>>>
>>>This documentation references new JDBC 4.0 functionality that is not
>>>enabled in this Apache Derby 10.2 release because a final Java SE 6
>>>release is not available yet. JDBC 3.0 will be available by default when
>>>used with a Java SE 6 beta build. JDBC 4.0 functionality will only be
>>>available to developers who download Java SE 6 themselves and build
>>>Derby with it.
>>>
>>>-jean
>>>
>>>Jean T. Anderson wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I'm looking for wording we can plug into both the release notes and
>>>>strategic pages in the documentation. How does this sound?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>This documentation references new JDBC 4.0 functionality that is not
>>>>enabled in this Apache Derby 10.2 release. Until a final Java SE 6
>>>>release is available, JDBC 3.0 will be available by default when used
>>>>with a Java SE 6 beta build. JDBC 4.0 functionality will only be
>>>>available to developers who download Java SE 6 themselves and build
>>>>Derby with it.
>>>>
>>>>tweaks? comments? corrections?
>>>>
>>>>thanks,
>>>>
>>>>-jean
>>>>  
>>>>        
>>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>