Hi Mark, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 11/01/2013 11:31, sebb wrote: >> On 11 January 2013 02:38, Phil Steitz <p...@steitz.com> wrote: >>> On 1/10/13 8:57 AM, ma...@apache.org wrote: >>>> Author: markt >>>> Date: Thu Jan 10 16:57:07 2013 >>>> New Revision: 1431496 >>>> >>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1431496&view=rev >>>> Log: >>>> Update DBCP2 to require JDBC 4.1 (Java 7) since Java 6 is close to end >>>> of life and a DBCP2 release is still a little way off. >>> >>> Probably should have talked about this on the list. Oh, I guess we >>> are. In that case, here is my +1. >> >> I don't understand the rationale for requiring JDBC 4.1 - does it >> offer significant benefits over the previous version? > > Nothing significant that I have found so far. > >> Or is it that applications written to use the previous version of JDBC >> won't even run on Java 7? > > They should run but DBCP won't compile on Java 7 unless the JDBC 4.1 > methods are implemented (hence the gump nags we have been getting for a > while). There is also the risk that an app written compiled against Java > 7 tries to use one of the JDBC 4.1 methods. That would trigger a > run-time exception. > >> I know that the JDBC API has been changed in ways that don't respect >> upward compatibilty in the past - has that happened again? > > Yes. As it has with every new JDBC release that I can recall. > >> Although Java 6 is close to EOL, I suspect a lot of commercial sites >> will remain on it long after EOL. > > There is the option (if someone wants to scratch this particular itch - > I don't) to add similar filtering as there is in DBCP1 to support dual > builds for JBDC4 and JDBC4.1. Why not? DBCP did set the precedence with active 1.3.x and 1.4.x series. No reason why we should not have now 1.5.x (JDBC 4.1) and 1.4.x (JDBC 4.0). However, I'd skip the maintenance of 1.3.x then. > My primary driver is that I want to get a decent concurrent connection > pool based on DBCP into Tomcat 8. Tomcat 8 implements Servlet 3.1 which > requires Java 7 so I need DBCP2 to build against Java 7 and I'd rather > not continue the current hack in the Tomcat build of patching the source > to add the methods. Cheers, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
