Hi All, In working on this I can see the decision on POI is made for us. POI requires JDK 1.2 or better (for performance with collections and language encoding reasons) so it will need to be off somewhere in an "optional" package.
Regarding this, are there any thoughts on when it would make sense to move to Java 2? It seems to me that the benefits of using the newer collections, dumping enumerations for iterators, etc. would make it worth it. The only disadvantage, of course, would be a few disenfranchised folks on obsolescent hardware (probably mostly old Macs). The normal reason for sticking with JDK 1.1 doesn't seem to apply which is browser support, but I see very little application for Lucene in Applets anyhow. With JDK 1.4 coming out shortly it seems to me to be a reasonable decision. (two version behind is quite conservative) Does anyhow have any thoughts on this? Could we consider upgrading the Java 2 collections at least internally? I would be happy to submit patches for this. -Andy -- www.superlinksoftware.com www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
