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Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 21:42:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mohan Kishore <mohankishore@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Yes,
 it's another VOTE: RELEASE STRUTS 1.1 WITH DBCP NIGHTLY BUILD
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--- "Craig R. McClanahan" <craigmcc@apache.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 May 2003, Ted Husted wrote:
> > So, by retrofitting the old GDS and adding the new 1.4 Connection
> > signatures as "UnsupportedOperation", she compiles under 1.4 but
> > *without* Commons-DBCP and Commons-Pool.
> 
> As soon as you try this, you're going to discover a very unpleasant fact
> -- you cannot create a single source file of a class that implements
> java.sql.Connection that compiles under both JDK < 1.4 and JDK >= 1.4.  If
> you want to see the world's worst hack to get around this, take a look at
> the commons-dbcp source code and the associated build script.
> 
> Such a class compiled under 1.4 will *run* on a < 1.4 platform (as long as
> you don't reference the new methods that deal with a Savepoint).  But we'd
> have to accept a restriction that you can only compile Struts on a 1.4 or
> later platform.  That wouldn't bother me personally (I use 1.4
> exclusively) but I suspect it would bother more than a few users.

Believe can work out an alternate resolution using a dynamic proxy - but most
probably would have performance impact... Do you think its worth the effort..?

regards,
Mohan.

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