Raul, till all the major app servers are moved off of JDK1.3 (for production environment), we cannot stop supporting it. So, here's my +1 to support 1.3 at least for a bit more time.
thanks, dims On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:13:38 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30/09/2004, at 22:15, Joris Wijlens wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is version 1.2 still going to be compatible with jre 1.3. I tried to > > compile HEAD from CVS (30-sep-2004) with a sdk 1.3 compiler and got > > these messages: > > > > [javac] > > D: > > \workspace\xml_sec_cvs\src\org\apache\xml\security\c14n\implementations > > \CanonicalizerBase.java:82: cannot resolve symbol > > [javac] symbol : constructor RuntimeException > > (java.lang.String,java.lang.Exception) > > [javac] location: class java.lang.RuntimeException > > [javac] throw new RuntimeException("Unable to create nullNode",e); > > [javac] ^ > > > Ok, I'll see in the jdk 1.3 there is no Exception(String reason, > Exception rootException) constructor, that's way it fails compilling it > won't very dificult to fix poorly, but if we don't want to loose > information when running in 1.4 we'll need something like tomcat is > used with one class that wraps the diferences between the jdks. > Anyhow I'll don't know how big is the interest of supporting jre 1.3 > please raise your hands/email so I can see if worth the effort of doing > more or less hacky for xml-sec 1.2 or we do right but for latter > version. > > Regards, > > Raul > http://r-bg.com > > -- Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/