I agree - adding support for 1.5 while retaining compatibility with 1.4 (essentially not to use features of 1.5) is probably the best option.
- Vish. >-----Original Message----- >From: Bjorn Townsend [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:54 PM >To: [email protected] >Cc: Axis-Dev >Subject: Re: [axis2] [IMPORTANT] JDK 1.4 compatibility - feedback requested > >Hi Glen, > >I wanted to throw my two cents in on this as it's an important issue. >In short, I think Axis2 should continue to support both, especially >if it wants to encourage stragglers to migrate from 1.x. Most of >Sourcelabs' customers are inherently conservative Global 2000 >companies, most of them use Axis 1.x in one form or another, and none >of them have completely migrated to 1.5. The reasons for this are >generally the result of company policy -- internal standards and the >desire to minimize upgrades being prominent reasons for said policy. >The process of moving to 1.5 for them will be a long and painful one, >and they are much more likely to be interested in or need to migrate >to Axis2 before upgrading to Java 1.5. Our customers would find >migrating to Axis2 much more palatable if they didn't need to upgrade >to Java 1.5 at the same time. I suspect the same is probably true of >many users of Axis in the enterprise. > >Thanks, >Bjorn > >On Aug 14, 2007, at 9:25 PM August 14, Glen Daniels wrote: > >> Hi Axis2 developers and users! >> >> There has been a bunch of discussion lately revolving around the >> question of JDK1.4 compatibility. It has been suggested that Axis2 >> move to JDK 1.5, in order to gain the benefits of things like >> generics, built-in concurrency (no backport lib), and annotations. >> Some folks feel that there are enough people out there still in a >> 1.4 environment that we should hold off, and others think we should >> bite the bullet and move to 1.5. >> >> HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO PROVIDE VALUABLE INPUT! >> >> Are you using, or planning to use, Axis2 in an environment that is >> locked to JDK 1.4? If so, please let us know by responding to this >> thread and telling us (if you can) about the particulars of what's >> tying you to 1.4 - is it your app server? Company policy? >> Something else? >> >> We'd really like to take good care of our users, and doing that >> involves figuring out whether we can jump into 1.5-land or if we >> need to keep things working with 1.4. >> >> Thanks, >> --Glen >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
