OK, go ahead and open a JIRA and commit the commons-dbcp upgrade.
I'll open a separate one to "Drop JDK5 support" for any build and doc
updates (like removing the test-java5 profile.)

-Donald


On 9/13/10 4:40 PM, Miłosz Tylenda wrote:
> Hi Donald,
> 
> Yes, I am asking about trunk only.
> 
> If we stick with commons-dbcp-1.2.2:
> + Users can run openjpa-all and use connection pooling out-of-the-box on JDK5 
> and JDK6.
> - The XML test case will fail on Oracle, actually it is worse as it hangs up 
> the test suite (we do not perform rollback on java.lang.Error?)
> - Users who want to use JDBC 4 calls in their apps along with openjpa-all and 
> connection pooling will fail, they need to upgrade dbcp.
> 
> If we upgrade to commons-dbcp-1.4:
> + Users can use JDBC 4 along with openjpa-all and connection pooling 
> out-of-the-box on JDK6.
> + No test suite problem.
> - Users can't run openjpa-all and use connection pooling out-of-the-box on 
> JDK5, need to downgrade dbcp themselves.
> 
> The upgrade is debatable. Since in the other thread we voted to drop JDK5 
> support in trunk and the move to JDBC 4 is likely to happen sooner or later I 
> am in favor of doing the upgrade.
> 
> BTW, if commons-dbcp-1.4 jar was not compiled into JDK6 class file format, it 
> could work with JDK5 too. I was running JDBC 4 drivers in JDK5 with success, 
> the same looks possible with connection pooling/delegation.
> 
> Cheers,
> Milosz
> 
> 
> Dnia 13 września 2010 15:16 Donald Woods <[email protected]> napisał(a):
> 
>> I assume you're asking about trunk?  The only concern, is
>> commons-dbcp-1.4 is ONLY supported on JDK6 and later, while the trunk
>> code can still run on JDK5 (with the exception of a few JPA2 features.)
>>
>> It looked like we had enough support in another thread to drop JDK5
>> support in trunk, but everyone needs to understand the JDK6 dependency
>> and that our openjpa-all JAR will then only work on JDK6+....
>>
>> -Donald
>>
>>
>> On 9/12/10 4:26 AM, Miłosz Tylenda wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We use commons-dbcp 1.2.2 which implements JDBC 3 only. I am hit by this in 
>>> OPENJPA-1691 - this would be the first JDBC 4 use in OpenJPA - and would 
>>> try to upgrade commons-dbcp to 1.4 which implements JDBC 4 [1]. Does anyone 
>>> see obstacles?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Milosz
>>>
>>> [1] http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/changes-report.html
>>>
>>>
>>
> 

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