Rick Hillegas wrote: > Hi Derby users, > > Sun will stop supporting jdk1.3 at the end of March, 2006 (see > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/index.jsp) and is encouraging customers to > migrate their applications to supported platforms. Would anyone object > if the next release of Derby (release 10.2) is the last release which > runs on jdk1.3? Note that Derby 10.2 will still run on jdk1.4.x and > jdk1.5.x and, I hope, on some flavor of the upcoming 1.6 jdk. Note also > that long after jdk1.3 officially sunsets, users will still be able to > download Derby 10.2 for use on that unsupported platform. > > Is this acceptable? If not, how would you like to see Derby handle the > sunsetting of jdk1.3 support?
FYI - some of the end of service dates for IBM's 1.3 vms go out to Sep 2007. blackdown.org seemed to release a 1.3 in Jan 2005 http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/index.html Note sure these would change any 10.2 Derby plan, but it's more data points. Dan.
