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From: "Evan Ireland" <eireland@sybase.com>
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Subject: RE: JDK 1.4 support?
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:52:59 +1300
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Sounds like a good plan, based on the JDK 1.4 EOL schedule.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Linskey [mailto:plinskey@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, 16 March 2008 12:06 p.m.
> To: dev@openjpa.apache.org
> Subject: JDK 1.4 support?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What do you guys think about discontinuing our JDK 1.4 
> support? I've made a few attempts to make our concurrent map 
> utilization pluggable to allow us to take advantage of the 
> JDK improvements in concurrency, but have had a hard time 
> doing so in the past. It occurs to me that one easy way to do 
> this would be to just get rid of JDK 1.4 support in OpenJPA 
> 1.1, which would let us switch directly to the Java 5 
> java.util.concurrent package, without requiring cumbersome 
> wrappers etc.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Patrick
> 
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> Patrick Linskey
> 202 669 5907
>