On man, 2004-01-26 at 14:08, Chris Bowditch wrote:Anyone who has worked in a large organisation will know: it is very difficult to upgrade the OS on a server (which is a pre-requiste for later JDKs on some platforms). Large companies tend to have request forms/processes just to copy a single file onto large servers/mainframes, let alone upgrading OS/JDKs.
AIX is one example. To get Java 1.4 on AIX you need at least AIX 5.1. And whats worse is that it also requires a certain level of hardware (Common Hardware Reference Platform). A lot of currently active AIX-servers do not meet this requirement, including our development server at work :-(
Chris-- /Reiche
As mentioned previously, we have an in-house AIX box which we probably won't be able to upgrade. It was built to match the servers used by our clients. Fortunately, fop-0.20.4 works on those systems, due to relatively minimal system requirements (although we use fop-0.20.5 elsewhere, we haven't updated FOP on that box because it works!). If the requirements for fop-1.0 *require* Java 1.4, that system (IBM Java 1.3) will probably be stuck at fop-0.20.4 or .5 for the foreseeable future.
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