JDK 1.4 support WAS: [jbosscache-dev] Jarring jars

[Manik Surtani]

On 16 Feb 2007, at 16:42, Brian Stansberry wrote:

> <SNIP />

> Re: reducing dependencies, how about (for 2.0):
>
> 1) Standardize on JGroups 2.5 and chuck concurrent.jar.
> 2) Chuck JDK 1.4 compatibility, which IMHO is a lot of trouble for  
> little gain.  Since AS 4.2 ships with 1.4.x, we're going to have to  
> do bug fixes on 1.4.x for a number of years.  That makes it a semi- 
> living branch for those non-JBAS users who require JDK 1.4.
> 3) See if any of the PojoCache dependencies can be eliminated or  
> reduced to optional (e.g. microcontainer).
>

Interesting suggestion here, to drop 1.4 compat for JBC 2.0.0.  The  
only reason we tried to have this in is for Hibernate, which is  
baselined on JDK 1.4.  What do people think about this?  I would  
think we'd want Hibernate running with the latest and greatest JBC  
though...

Cheers,
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Manik Surtani

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