the end of life on 1.4 was fall 2008! +1 in going to 1.5 directly
Michael Glavassevich <mrgla...@ca.ibm.com> wrote: > >Hi Jake, > >"Jacob Kjome" <h...@visi.com> wrote on 07/08/2010 12:58:49 PM: > >> I have a library I develop (XMLC [1]) that depends on JDK1.3 and also >depends >> on Xerces. That said, part of the reason of depending on JDK1.3 is >> to stay in >> line with the Xerces dependency on JDK1.3. The other reason is >thatJDK1.3 is >> free and clear of any built-in XML APIs, which allows me to include >exactly >> the JAXP library of my choice (xml-apis.jar) without worry of >compile-time >> binding to odd invalid APIs included in 1.4 (such as some stuff meant for >the >> HTML2 API that got placed in the HTML1 API DOM package namespace). But >if >> Xerces decides to move to a later version of Java, then I will probably >move >> XMLC right along with it. >> >> That said, I would think that if Xerces were going to bother making a >move at >> all it would move to JDK1.5 rather than bother with 1.4. Xerces 2.10 is >> always there for 1.3 and 1.4 codebases, which should all be well into >> maintenance mode meaning few, if any, library changes. > >It's often not a choice but a constraint of the environment the developer >is working in, having to write a new application on top of a product stack >which is stuck on one of these earlier JDK releases. JDK 1.4 isn't dead >yet; still in service for some vendors, including Oracle/Sun if you're a >business willing to pay for the support. Not aware of any vendors >supporting JDK 1.3 anymore though. > >> Moving to 1.5 would >> allow Xerces to take advantage of all the new language constructs added >in >> 1.5, as well as APIs added in 1.5 (e.g., StringBuilder -vs- >StringBuffer). > >Right. We all talked about the benefits of moving up even higher to Java 5 >and 6 before, but have been quite conservative about upgrading because of >where we are in the food chain. > >> So, +1 for changing JDK dependency in general, but I would prefer a move >> straight to JDK1.5+ skipping JDK1.4 support. This also seems to be >> what a lot >> of Apache commons libraries are doing, so it's certainly not >unprecedented. >> >> [1] http://forge.ow2.org/projects/xmlc/ >> >> >> Jake >> >> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:36:07 -0400 >> Michael Glavassevich <mrgla...@ca.ibm.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >> > (including general@xml.apache.org on the cc list to hopefully reach a >wider >> > audience) >> > >> > We're talking again on the Xerces j-dev mailing list about dropping >support >> > for JDK 1.3. The reason being that current builds of the XPath 2.0 >> > processor (Eclipse PsychoPath) used by the XML Schema 1.1 >implementation >> > require JDK 1.4. While we do have a one-off PsychoPath jar that was >built >> > with JDK 1.3 some time ago, in order to pick up recent bug fixes in >this >> > library we need to refresh it with the JDK 1.4 version. This would only >> > impact the XML Schema 1.1 enabled release for now but at some point in >the >> > future when XML Schema 1.1 becomes stable (both spec and impl) this >would >> > get merged into the main line. >> > >> > Given the age of JDK 1.3 and that it's generally out of service my >> > intuition is that this upgrade would probably be okay but wanted to >check >> > with users on their needs. Is there anyone out there still using >Xerces-J >> > with JDK 1.3? If you are, how long into the future will you continue to >do >> > so, and would you be willing to migrate to JDK 1.4 (or higher) to be >able >> > to use XML Schema 1.1? >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > Michael Glavassevich >> > XML Parser Development >> > IBM Toronto Lab >> > E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com >> > E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org > >Thanks. > >Michael Glavassevich >XML Parser Development >IBM Toronto Lab >E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com >E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
