[jboss-dev] RE: Jdk1.4 vs jdk5

[Ryan Campbell]

I know you are asking Scott, but here's my opinion anyway.

> Also, how to deal with the compatibility tests? The way we use client
libs
> from one jboss version against a running server of another version
(e.g.
> 4.2 client libs against 4.0 server) will not work, unless we run the
> client with jdk5.
> 
> Is this what we are supposed to do? i.e. require all jboss 4.2
compiled
> code to need a jdk5 runtime?

As I understand it, yes.  We should kill the 1.4 JDK test suites and
move the compatibility tests to 1.5.


> 
> Do you see any other issue interoperating with older servers running
on
> jdk1.4 ?

This should only be a problem if the JDK broke serialization uid's
between 1.4 & 1.5, correct?