> At 8:08 am +0100 6/2/02, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > >Last september it has been decided to drop JDK 1.1 support mostly out of > >performance reasons. Almost every reasonable platform has a Java 2 > >implementation available today and there are not many projects left at > >Apache Foundation that still support JDK 1.1. > > My 'platform' is a slot loading iMac.
I guessed right then. :-) You could install MacOSX which has a decent JDK 1.3.1. > It should be a general goal of Open Source projects to be backwards > compatible. My understanding is that it should be possible to > use a tool like ant to extract a Java 1.1 subset. Should it? To a certain extent, yes. But I think it would be best if Steve Jobs held his promise to fully support the Java2 platform even on his older systems. Have a look at the following link. JDK 1.1 is marked as End-Of-Life. http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/download-jdk-windows.html > I would like my product to support Mac and Windows systems from > 1998 on, on the basis/functional specification that my product > (of which FOP is only a part) should be installable and usable > on all Macs of the same age or newer than mine, and Windows with > a suitable version of Java installed. It is also my understanding > that the latest version of Blackdown java is 1.1.8, exempli gratia > <URL: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/info.html > Blackdown has several Java 2 ports. Sun provides a JDK 1.3.1 for Windows, Linux and Solaris. IBM for Windows, Linux, AIX and OS/390 etc. MacOS 9 and earlier are some of the last OS that remain pre-Java2. Other Java ports can be found here: http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/java-ports.cgi > Of course I am not sure that ant runs on the classic MacOS, so > I am dependant on my finding myself a linux machine to generate > the sources. I will do this, I just don't have the technology at > present. There again I am not certain that ant doesn't, as it is > possible that one of the many projects called JShell, I think this > one <URL: http://homepage.mac.com/pcbeard/JShell/ >, will run ant. I've found a notice in the ant documentation: "For the current version of Ant, you will also need a JDK installed on your system, version 1.1 or later. A future version of Ant will require JDK 1.2 or later." Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Fon +41 41 317 20 20 - Fax +41 41 317 20 29 Internet http://www.outline.ch
