From: Alan E. <ala...@gm...> - 2006-07-12 15:58:47
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Another benefit of dropping support for 1.5 is to avoid the famous "xerces" problem. We're in the process of rewriting the core to use a different XML parser, removing this obsolete one from object factory, but we're replacing it with one that's already obsolete. If we went with 1.5, we could update the XML code to use the current XML apis, and not worry about clashing with older versions of xerces. On 7/10/06, Alan Ezust <ala...@gm...> wrote: > One of the things I find really annoying about JDK 1.4 is its lack of > support for popup menus in every Swing component. We have popup menus > that are badly written and don't respond to hide-events or mouse > events properly. Context menus - why should we have to keep > maintaining these old classes? ick. > |