RE: Jakarta jars binaries for JDK 1.3

2005-02-28 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 12:43 -0500, Henri Yandell wrote: Ditto for Commons. I'm pretty sure most of them are outputting 1.2-compatible code from a 1.4 compiler. I'll also happily believe that that's not a perfect system :) I'm very sure that there are incompatibilities with bytecode outputted

RE: Jakarta jars binaries for JDK 1.3

2005-02-28 Thread Henri Yandell
Yep. What do you think to the idea of using one of the ASF boxes as a build machine for releases? It'd have to have all JDK's on it, you'd do: jdk12 svn export ... build ... Also nice as it stops people releasing from their snadbox, which can often contain junk. We could ask Infra if such a

Re: [RESULT] [site] New download pages

2005-02-28 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
[ back from holidays... ] I like it. However, is there any docs for the projects how to update these pages. At least for Turbine it points to an old / outdated version... Regards Henning On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 19:35 -0500, Henri Yandell wrote: 8 +1's. It's now live

Re: [RESULT] [site] New download pages

2005-02-28 Thread Henri Yandell
Edit xdocs/downloads/downloads.xml and run Ant. I'd noticed that Turbine was fairly out of date. I'll add adding the downloads bit to the jakarta-site docs to the wiki, and get around to it soon. Hen On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: [ back from holidays... ] I like it.

Re: Jakarta jars binaries for JDK 1.3

2005-02-28 Thread Stephen Colebourne
The problem occurs when a new method is added to a common class StringBuffer.append(Object) was in early JDKs StringBuffer.append (StringBuffer) was added later If you compile under the later JDKs it uses the second method. Run that bytecode on an earlier JDK and it fails. Thats why I always

Re: Jakarta jars binaries for JDK 1.3

2005-02-28 Thread NetSQL
http://sourceforge.net/projects/retroweaver It works like magic. There are some 1.5 jars I wanted and this just fixes it. .V - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [site] FAQs page

2005-02-28 Thread Henri Yandell
Will contact them. Hen On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, robert burrell donkin wrote: the incubator folks might appreciate an edited version of the apacheforge stuff. (a little famous in it's day.) any volunteers to contact incubator and offer to do the editing if the content appeals? - robert On 22 Feb

Sun to host Online Live Q/A Conference on Java Application Deployment (WebStart) tmrw March 1st

2005-02-28 Thread NetSQL
Some of you are familiar with limits of applets. Web start (JNLP) allows for a more of a rich user interface then what we can do w/ Applets and DHTML. But deploying Java, applets and applications over the internet can be a challenge, including security warnings for registered applications and