The definition of what's in Sun's JDK 5.0 is shown here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/idl/compliance.html
but AIUI it is a standard that can be replaced with later versions in
compliant implementations.
Regards,
Tim
Andy Piper wrote:
> FWIW the various versions are not completely compatible. For instance
> 2.5 introduced an incompatible change in wstring marshalling that was
> corrected in 2.6. So which version you pick _does_ matter. 2.3 is a pain
> because it doesn't specify certain things particularly rigorously and
> different vendors did different things.
>
> If it was me I would implement the 2.6 versions of the required parts of
> 2.3, since there is general agreement on marshalling etc, but I
> understand that implementing the whole of 2.6 is a pain since it
> introduces a bunch of stuff (such as PI) which you may not want to
> implement.
>
> Note that the Sun ORB in J2SE 1.4+ implements _more_ than 2.3. In
> particular it implements Portable Interceptors (which were introduced in
> 2.4) + a bunch of other minor things.
>
> andy
>
> At 16:19 24/11/2006, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>
>
>> Alexey Petrenko wrote:
>>> 2006/11/24, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>> Alexey Petrenko wrote:
>>>> > 2006/11/24, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>> >> Alexey Petrenko wrote:
>>>> >> > 2006/11/23, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>> >> >> Alexey Petrenko wrote:
>>>> >> >> > Do we want to be Java5 compatible?
>>>> >> >> >
>>>> >> >> > Yes, I understand that Yoko is CORBA 2.4 while Java5 and
>>>> even 6 are
>>>> >> >> > CORBA 2.3. This means that it is impossible to create fully
>>>> >> compatible
>>>> >> >> > version since it will require downgrading Yoko and this is
>>>> not a
>>>> >> >> > choice.
>>>> >> >> Why is that true?
>>>> >> >> Does CORBA 2.4 not include a complete CORBA 2.3?
>>>> >> > Fully compatible means "both directions" for me.
>>>> >> I don't understand what that means.
>>>> > Both directions compatibility means that every program designed for
>>>> > Java5 can be executed on Yoko and every program designed for Yoko can
>>>> > be executed on Java5.
>>>> But Harmony can't commit to such support - we are implementing a
>>>> specific API (Java 5), and Yoko is free to do what it wants to...
>>> That's why I said that it is impossible to make Yoko fully compatible
>>> with Java5 in my first email. And nobody wants to. And nobody asks to.
>>
>> sorry - I feel like we're going in circles here. I don't understand...
>>
>> Why can't yoko implement CORBA 2.3 completely (if that is our
>> requirement for JDK 5)?
>>
>> The TCK for SE 5 probably wont' care of there's *more* CORBA in there,
>> so the 2.4 things, if compatible with 2.3, should be fine.
>>
>>
>> geir
>>
>>
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