On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Claude Brisson <cla...@renegat.net> wrote: > >>> Is 2.0 relatively backward-compatible with 1.4? I wish I could have a >>> software release that only dealt with library upgrades. Mmmm... that'd >>> be nice. >>> >> >> yes, i worked pretty hard to maintain a significant level of >> compatibility for 2.0, to give people some time to change before 2.1 >> starts stripping out the B.C. stuff. >> >> > > I can confirm this, Nathan did a great job about B.C. > > There are some gotchas of course ; I can think of: > - servlets that inherit VelocityViewServlet often need to be reviewed > - custom tools that rely on receiving a ServletContext as init() param need > to be updated (the proper way is now to have a public setServletContext() > method) > - tools instantiation is lazier than before, this is a good optimization > but can lead to some side-effects
heh. it wasn't lazy at all before! what side effects have you seen? > Please tell us which difficulties you encountered, it can be worth > enumerating all potential problems for other users. > > Don't miss: > http://velocity.apache.org/tools/releases/2.0/creatingtools.html#Standard_Tool_Properties > and http://velocity.apache.org/tools/releases/2.0/summary.html > > > Claude > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org
