Thanks Deven. Sounds reasonable for the upgrade. If there are any failures after upgrading, I'm happy to join the bug fixing work.
2009/2/25 Deven You <[email protected]> > From our tests, upgrade to icu4j 4.0 can speed up tomcat startup time. > > 2009/2/24 Mark Hindess <[email protected]> > > > > > In message <[email protected] > >, > > Deven You writes: > > > > > > Hi, > > > I have tried to upgrade icu4j3.8 to icu4j4.0 for classlib trunk on my > > > machine, below is the instructions for this upgrade: > > > 1. download icu4j-4_0.jar and icu4j-charsets-4_0.jar from ICU official > > > website http://icu-project.org/download/4.0.html > > > 2. create icu4j_4.0 folder in trunk/depends/jars, copy icu4j-4_0.jar > and > > > icu4j-charsets-4_0.jar into icu4j_4.0 folder > > > 3. create icu4j_4.0 folder in trunk/depends/manifests, copy META-INF > > foledr > > > from icu4j_3.8 and use version 4.0 replace 3.8 in the MANIFEST.MF > file. > > > 4. apply configuration patch[1] for icu4.0 to change some configuration > > > settings. > > > 5. apply nio Charset patch[2] to avoid circular dependency error, if > no > > > this patch, nio_char unit test will report many circular dependency > > > error[3] > > > > > > I think maybe now we can upgrade icu4j 3.8 to icu4j 4.0. > > > any issues welcom to discuss! > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12400589/config_icu40.diff > > > [2] > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12400590/Charset.diff > > > [3] > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12400591/nio_char_errors.txt > > > > Seems like a good idea. I'll try to find a moment to test this. > > > > What are the benefits we get from this upgrade? Performance? Footprint? > > > > In case it helps anyone else, the JIRA with these attachments is: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6096 > > > > (I don't think there is an easy way to get from attachment links back to > > the > > jira link?) > > > > Regards, > > -Mark. > > > > > > > -- Best Regards, Jim, Jun Jie Yu China Software Development Lab, IBM
