Steve Cohen wrote:
We need to discuss this further.
Mario Ivankovits VFS is a client of Net and he has users still on 1.3 who are complaining that Net 1.4 breaks VFS.
And not only my users constantly complain about it. AFAIK this is also true for other commons components. Though, there is an end of live for jdk1.3 and so we sould also to define such a point in the future.

Personally I see this point reached in 6 months, but understand if we have to stick on 1.3 for the next year.

Then we should jump to jdk 1.5 (with jdk 1.4 api) and use retroweaver to provide the jdk 1.4 version.
Our releases should then contain jars for both (1.5 and 1.4)
I know there are the same issues with api compatibility, but if we run our tests against both jdks we should be fine, also it might be possible to have an api checker which will check the generated classes against the classpath.
Whatever, we might find a way to archive this.

I know, this is somehow radical, but our code starts to smell and become spider webs if we have to stick on 1.3 for the time being ;-)

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Mario


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