Last I checked, we still have some users who claim _their_ users can't upgrade from 1.1.8. Being able to compile against that version is still part of our official spec. I'd love to drop it, but I don't think that's on the table yet.
On the other hand, it might not be unreasonable to have a separate ANT build target for that case, or (if ANT will let us) to conditionalize the build based in the JVM available. If that gets us out of this hole... ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
