Ugo Cei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
>
> Unico Hommes wrote:
> > I think that as a software product that is known for its innovative
> > nature it is *very* important in the interest of Cocoon to
> refuse being
> > impaired by the immobility of bureaucracratic organisations. We are
> > having a small crisis on our hands ATM regarding our
> persistent store
> > component and if I was reading Pier correctly he was
> willing to dedicate
> > some time towards a solution to this problem.
> >
> > One of the main attractions of the jdk 1.4 is its NIO package, and
> > it's
> > supposed to be a major improvement in Javas IO performance.
> With 1.4
> > being available for - what more than two years? - and 1.5
> already on the
> > horizon it is IMHO the right time to upgrade.
>
> Since we don't have a NIO-based implementation of the
> persistent store,
> yet, why upgrade now? When we have it, I'll be more than
> willing to vote +1.
>
It's sort of chicken and egg: why spend the time writing a NIO based
persistent store if we have no guarantee that it can be used? I'd
rather just give the developers the a-priori knowledge that what they
write (that is 1.4 dependant) will be acceptable no matter what...
