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From: Andrus Adamchik <aadamchik@apache.org>
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Subject: Java 1.5 / 1.6 coexistence issues
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:13:22 +0300

We are trying to setup Cayenne ORM project structure to be both  
buildable and runnable under Java 1.5 and 1.6. ("buildable" is  
important for non-64-bit Intel Mac users. There's no Java 6 for those  
older Macs).

The problem is that we are implementing a bunch of java[x].sql  
interfaces in Cayenne that have changed between the versions of Java.  
So take for instance a class implementing java.sql.ResultSet. To be  
able to compile against 1.6 jars, we need methods like this:

   public java.sql.SQLXML getSQLXML(int) {...}

Which does not compile against 1.5 jars. So what I am thinking is  
building a small "JDBC4-compatibility" Maven module based on OpenJDK  
(or Sun JRE) that contains needed interfaces from java[x].sql  
packages. It will be done outside Apache. Then the plan to make it a  
Cayenne "provided" dependency. I.e. it won't be shipped with Cayenne.

Any licensing considerations with this approach?

Thanks,
Andrus

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