Paul Fremantle wrote:
Steve
The answer is that there is no single set of imports that we can use in Java
that uses backport if its there in JDK 1.4 and the in-built JDK 5 stuff
otherwise.
So we had to either fix Axis2 to be JDK5+ only, or use backport. We chose
backport for the widest acceptance. However, they are in their own
namespace, so in JDK5 you are using the backport lib not the JDK stuff.
Eventually we can do a global rename and create a JDK5+ only version.
There is no way to do a 1.4 and a 1.5 build and switch to the right impl
on demand?
I started writing a rant against Sun's strategy but I figured no-one would
be interested so I've deleted it.
Oh, but I agree with it, even if is still unwritten.
