Mailing-List: contact dev-help@myfaces.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: "MyFaces Development" <dev@myfaces.apache.org>
Received-SPF: pass (asf.osuosl.org: domain of manfred.geiler@gmail.com
 designates 64.233.184.202 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
        s=beta; d=gmail.com;
        h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
        b=eJjXGykYSsOd7NOOjnSlOa1JvtrgobCvFpANjYtZQPO9ewTLZMTHgNJineuNxzvNOr7l2Ou3fpy+IyQJvcax6bU6tPkFQpr+f1dYxGoRe5PSjUXMb0VjiCeUc6JZe4C73oolHT+k323gYh/kGXA4JgKla47RFtXDp6QtX39eNfQ=
Message-ID: <564d4f68050909034333cc2678@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:43:13 +0200
From: Manfred Geiler <manfred.geiler@gmail.com>
Reply-To: manfred.geiler@gmail.com
To: MyFaces Development <dev@myfaces.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Java 5 code in Sandbox ?
In-Reply-To: <dfnqu5$i9a$1@sea.gmane.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
References: 
 <D50472BD5ED37D4D99CB55A8AF02CC17016AA57F@chsa1024.share.beluni.net>
	 <dfn8ij$5pg$1@sea.gmane.org> <17183.12169.886854.884111@sun.com>
	 <9eb65db00509071322293de413@mail.gmail.com>
	 <dfnqu5$i9a$1@sea.gmane.org>

Just a sidenote:
According to the spec the JSF 1.1 container itself must even be
compatible to J2SE 1.3 !
Of course, this is no requirement for custom components.
But, we should keep in mind, that the J2EE world is spinning a little
bit slower than the J2SE client world...
;-)
-Manfred

2005/9/8, Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at>:
> Mathias Br=F6kelmann wrote:
> > Just a note. JDK1.5 is able to produce 1.4 classes. We could change
> > the build process to let the user choose which target he needs and
> > still provide 1.4 classes (or both) in the releases. But let us bring
> > the next release out before going that way.
> >
> Maintenance nightmare, I would not want to keep two codebases
> in the long run.
> I have moved from two projects from 1.4 to 1.5 and believe me, once
> you made the switch and have started to use the new constructs,
> it is close to impossible to go back, the backporting effort
> is too big, once you have reached a certain point, which for sure you
> will reach soon enough.
>=20
>