Peter, This was discussed somewhat recently - you may want to go back through the archives. Some of us are still using XML-RPC in applets and so require JDK1.1 compatibility. List/Map break that.
Jim On 2002.06.29 13:31 Peter Lyons wrote: > I've just started using xml-rpc, and I found it very straightforward > and > had it integrated into a WebObjects webapp in short order, so thanks > to > all the developers! I'd like to patch some of the sources to use > java.util.List/Map instead of Vector/Hashtable so users could choose > which collection implementations to use. Does this seem worthwhile to > you? > > If so, would someone be willing to help me (off the list) > getting the build working as I have never done jakarta development > before, and was able to check out the sources and get ant and maven > installed, but am confused by the error message I get when doing 'ant > -f > build-maven.xml'. > > Thanks, > > Peter Lyons > > P.S. There might be some trickiness using the interfaces as someone > could write a class that implements both List and Map, so we would > have > to decide which order to do the instanceof checks, and document that a > class that implements both gets treated as a Map (or List if that is > better) > > > > -- Jim Redman (505) 662 5156 http://www.ergotech.com
