Note that while I am working on getting git master up to JDBC 4.2 on Java
8, the current version is JDBC 4.3 on Java 9. I am only looking at 4.2.

Gary

On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 11:06 Rob Tompkins <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> > On Jun 17, 2018, at 12:38 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Ideally, if we can just keep various branches around in releasable
> states,
> > then we can keep old dbcp 2.x.* maintenance releases moving forward.
> Based
> > on my experiences trying to release this module before, though, I think
> > that process would need to be streamlined and backported.
> >
>
> That’s what was running through my mind yesterday when I was reading the
> discussion.
>
> -Rob
>
> >> On 17 June 2018 at 07:58, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 16 June 2018 at 22:41, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> Hello Mark and all,
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for the heads up on the Tomcat plans.
> >>>
> >>> Asking DBCP to stay on Java 7 for 4-5 years is insane IMO, and it
> >> certainly
> >>> is not going to attract anyone to maintain and grow this component (IMO
> >>> again.) If that is a set of handcuffs you want to live with, then by
> all
> >>> means ;-)
> >>>
> >>> I am sure there is nothing stopping anyone at Apache to keep patches
> >> coming
> >>> to the DBCP 2.4.x line. I plan on keeping the release train going for
> >> many
> >>> Commons component, so I am happy to release DBCP at will.
> >>>
> >>> You will notice that
> >>> https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-dbcp/download_dbcp.cgi
> >> presents
> >>> no less than tree different versions of DBCP for different antique Java
> >>> platforms. We are just going to make that list one deeper.
> >>
> >> I think we can now drop support for JDBC 3 and JDBC 4 (Java 6)
> >> That leaves only JDBC 4.1 (Java 7.0) as a current release.
> >>
> >> Is that really too much to continue to support?
> >>
> >>> Again, patches are more than welcome. And do feel free to call for a RC
> >> or
> >>> RM it yourself ;-)
> >>>
> >>> Gary
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 2:34 PM Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 16/06/18 21:14, Matt Sicker wrote:
> >>>>>> On 16 June 2018 at 14:11, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> What is driving the desire to move to Java 8?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What's driving the desire to maintain support for a seven year old
> >>>> release
> >>>>> of Java which is not supported without paying large sums of money to
> >>>>> Oracle?
> >>>>
> >>>> As I said, Tomcat 8 which has at least another 4 to 5 years of life in
> >>>> it, depends on DBCP 2 and has a specification mandated requirement to
> >>>> maintain compatibility with Java 7.
> >>>>
> >>>> There are ways the Tomcat community could work around this. Because
> Java
> >>>> 7 is EOL does not - on its own - strike me as a sufficiently good
> reason
> >>>> to create hassle for another ASF community.
> >>>>
> >>>> If there are new features in Java 8 we want to take advantage of or an
> >>>> update to the JDBC API that we want to support then fair enough. Those
> >>>> are good reasons but I'd like to see them explicitly articulated.
> >>>>
> >>>> Mark
> >>>>
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