--- Jamie M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Eric Isakson wrote:
> > > I hadn't heard any discussion about bumping up
> to
> > Java 1.4 in the Lucene 1.4 release. Was this just
> > overlooked or are we planning to drop support for
> > pre 1.4 JVMs?
> >
> > There hasn't been any discussion yet, so, by
> > default, we should still
> > try to make things work in Java 1.2.
> >
> > That said, maybe we should have such a discussion.
>
> > Folks have been
> > encountering strange bugs using Lucene in Java 1.3
> > recently. There are
> > some features of Java 1.4 which could be useful,
> > e.g., LinkedHashMap,
> > for easy implementation of LRU caches, regex
> > support, logging, xml
> > parsers, etc. So there are good reasons to move
> to
> > 1.4.
> >
> > Are there reasons not to move to 1.4? 1.4 has
> been
> > out for two years
> > now, and is pretty stable, but perhaps there are
> > reasons some folks are
> > still unable to use it. If so, please speak up.
> >
> > Doug
>
> I'd be in support of moving to 1.4 if I wasn't
> developing for WebSphere. IBM's WebSphere 4 is in
> very wide use and uses 1.3.1.
>
> However, I've already worked around the regexp stuff
> in FieldSortedHitQueue by replacing it with
> Integer.parseInt(..) and Float.parseFloat(..),
> removing the 1.4 depenency. i.e, replaced:
>
> if (pIntegers.matcher(termtext).matches())
> return IntegerSortedHitQueue.comparator (reader,
> enumerator, field);
>
> else if (pFloats.matcher(termtext).matches())
> return FloatSortedHitQueue.comparator (reader,
> enumerator, field);
>
> with:
>
> try {
> int i = Integer.parseInt(termtext);
> return IntegerSortedHitQueue.comparator (reader,
> enumerator, field);
> } catch (NumberFormatException e) {}
>
> try {
> float f = Float.parseFloat(termtext);
> return FloatSortedHitQueue.comparator (reader,
> enumerator, field);
> } catch (NumberFormatException e) {}
>
>
> regards,
>
> jamie
>
What I said above about continuing to support JDK 1.3,
and in my case WebSphere 4's 1.3.1 JDK, is actually a
bit redundant since the current code in cvs throws a
"java.io.IOException: read past EOF" exception when
building an index under this
environment(http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27408)
This is due to a bug in IBM's 1.3.1 JDK, exposed by
the recent .tis file change.
So, I'll change my vote to neutral, since lucene 1.4
is already not supported by my JDK 1.3 environment,
with or without the FieldSortedHitQueue regexp stuff.
jamie
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