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Subject: RE: Dropping JDK 1.2 support for Xerces-J (and possibly JDK 1.3? 1.4?
 in the future)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:35:20 -0000
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From: "Schmidlin, Franck" <Franck.Schmidlin@northgate-is.com>
To: <j-dev@xerces.apache.org>, <j-users@xerces.apache.org>
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 > a new infusion of activity and interest.

you betcha, most of us would be up in arms!

I personally am stuck on 1.4.2 for the foreseeable future.

So +1 to drop 1.2/3 support, but let's not get too drastic please.


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-----Original Message-----
From: nbeyer@gmail.com [mailto:nbeyer@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Nathan
Beyer
Sent: 11 November 2008 02:25
To: j-users@xerces.apache.org
Cc: j-dev@xerces.apache.org; general@xml.apache.org
Subject: Re: Dropping JDK 1.2 support for Xerces-J (and possibly JDK
1.3? 1.4? in the future)

+1

I'd suggest just jumping to Java 5 library, source and target
compilation. I think this would give the project a new infusion of
activity and interest.

-Nathan

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Michael Glavassevich
<mrglavas@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> (including general@xml.apache.org on the cc list to hopefully reach a=20
> wider
> audience)
>
> I would like to propose that we officially drop support for JDK 1.2 in

> the next release of Xerces-J. Though the documentation [1] states that

> Xerces supports JDK 1.2 it has been years since we have built or=20
> tested binaries with this level. All of the recent releases were built

> and tested with JDK 1.3. It was brought to my attention that the code=20
> [2] since at least 2006 has had a dependency on APIs introduced in JDK

> 1.3. So we inadvertently moved on awhile ago. It seems this has not=20
> been a practical issue for most users since we've received no posts on

> these lists about it and received no other bug reports. It's not clear

> that there would be much benefit in restoring JDK 1.2 compatibility at

> this point. It's been out of service for years and looking around=20
> Apache it seems most projects run on JDK 1.4 or higher with some of
the stragglers [3][4] below that moving up soon.
>
> If you have serious concerns regarding Xerces abandoning JDK 1.2=20
> support please send an email to the j-dev@xerces.apache.org mailing=20
> list, specifying why you can't use a higher level of JDK and what=20
> parser features you are using.
>
> While on the subject I wonder what the community would think of us=20
> eventually dropping support for JDK 1.3 and possibly 1.4. There were=20
> features introduced in JDK 1.4 and 5 which Xerces could benefit from
(e.g.
> NIO, java.lang.CharSequence, exception chaining,=20
> java.lang.StringBuilder, java.util.concurrent.*, etc...). That's not=20
> something I'm proposing today (or thinking of proposing for awhile)=20
> but would like to hear feedback from users (please send to=20
> j-dev@xerces.apache.org) who may still need new versions of Xerces=20
> which run on JDK 1.3 and 1.4. It would also be nice hear from folks=20
> who've long since moved on to Java 5 and beyond and would like to see
Xerces take advantage of JDK 1.4 and 5 features.
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-general.html#faq-11
> [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1297
> [3] http://marc.info/?l=3Dant-dev&m=3D122596549809889&w=3D2
> [4] http://marc.info/?l=3Dfop-user&m=3D119244442600564&w=3D2
>
> Michael Glavassevich
> XML Parser Development
> IBM Toronto Lab
> E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
> E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org

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