Re: How strongly Tomcat 5.5.x will be committed to JDK 1.4.x in future..

2005-09-15 Thread Bill Barker
- Original Message - From: Costin Manolache [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:54 PM Subject: Re: How strongly Tomcat 5.5.x will be committed to JDK 1.4.x in future.. The current servlet spec doesn't requires J2SE 5.0 - only the

Re: How strongly Tomcat 5.5.x will be committed to JDK 1.4.x in future..

2005-09-14 Thread Costin Manolache
The current servlet spec doesn't requires J2SE 5.0 - only the next one ( another stupid forced, unjustified transition IMO ). I would assume JDK1.4 will be supported for a while, as long as the current version of the servlet spec is in use. Tomcat3.3, which supports JDK1.1, has been maintained

Re: How strongly Tomcat 5.5.x will be committed to JDK 1.4.x in future..

2005-09-13 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hi, Tomcat 5.5 will always allow JDK 1.4. Tomcat 6.0, as required by the J2EE 5 specifications, will require J2SE 5.0. I repeat, for emphasis, that this is required by the J2EE 5 Specification itself, which Tomcat 6.0 will support: it is not our decision to drop support for JDK 1.4. Yoav ---