Am Mittwoch, den 05.12.2007, 13:30 +0100 schrieb Carsten Ziegeler: > Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2007 12:06 PM, Carsten Ziegeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> ...what about using 2.5 everywhere but try to be > >> 2.4 compatible?... > > > > How do we check the "2.4 compatible" bit if using the 2.5 APIs? > > > > That sounds like a hard promise to keep, and I'd hate having us waste > > time helping users fight with servlet engine compatibility problems. > > > Hmm, in general I agree with you, but :) I don't think that this is a > very big effort - for example we did this in Cocoon for years. > Now, if we implement the 2.5 version whereever we implement servlet api > things ourselves (like our own servlet context impl in core) and use 2.4 > version everywhere else this should work fine.
Perhaps we should guard calls to 2.5 API by a check to the minor version in the ServletContext implementation to not get a NoSuchMethodError. Regards Felix
