Hey all,

I'd just like to chime in support for dropping JDK 1.1, especially if it
would aid i18n in Lucene. There just doesn't seem to be a compelling
reason to build anything for JDK 1.1 anymore.

Regards,
Matt
Jive Software

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:52 AM
> To: Lucene Users List
> Subject: JDK 1.1 vs 1.2+
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I originally posted this question to the developers list, but 
> was asked to repeat it here.
> 
> I'm working on some new functionality I plan to submit for 
> Lucene.  In doing this I've noticed that Lucene currently 
> maintains compatibility with JDK 1.1.  This has some 
> disadvantages for instance the use of "vector" versus some of 
> the new collections.  Next, some of the functionality I plan 
> to add requires JDK 1.2.  Finally, some of the 
> internationalization features of Java do not work well in 
> 1.1.  For these reasons I suggest a move to 1.2+.  While it 
> seems reasonable to me to drop support for a >4 year old 
> version of the JDK, I realize it may still present a problem 
> to some users and would like to raise a discussion on this.
> 
> How many people are still using 1.1 and would be negatively 
> affected by Lucene's use of 1.2 features?  Of those, how many 
> people can not move to 1.2 for server side development?
> 
> -Andy
> -- 
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> www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to 
> java 
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555
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