Re: [OJB-developers] One more question

[Thomas M. <tho...@ho...>]

Hi,

Joa...@tp... wrote:

 >>>[snip Exception chaining with JDK 1.3-compatibility using Reflection]
 >>>
 >>>
 >>This is definitely a good idea! Does it work with JDK 1.2 too?
 >>If so you should commit it !
 >>
 >
 > I commited it before you answered. Mea culpa. Today I checked wether it
 > works with JDK 1.2 and it doesn, but other parts of OJB don't.

 > DefaultConnectionFactory used JNDI, which was not part of JDK1.2. I've
 > added jndi.jar (which is only 96kb) to the repository.


Thanks ! The jndi.jar must have been on my classpath. I never had any
compile problems with jdk 1.2 !

 > Additionally the
 > reversedb GUI doesn't compile with 1.2


Yes, that's right. I think it's important to have the operational kernel
JDK 1.2 as there are production environments requiring JDK1.2.
I don't see why a compile-time tool must stick to JDK 1.2

 > so I just added it to excludes in
 > build.properties (localy only, of course). We should either add
 > build.properties to the preprocessing (which I don't think is a good 
idea)
 > or just tell JDK 1.2 users to add it to build.properties manually (not a
 > perfect solution either).


it's not perfect, but it's only for a small number of users...


 >
 > We could move the tools to a seperate ant-target, so the default 
build will
 > work with JDK 1.2 and reversedb & co would be in another target (I don't
 > think that making reversedb work with 1.2 is worth the trouble).
 >


that's a good idea!


 >
 >>If not we should have some more "nit-picking" discussions ;-)
 >>
 >
 > *g* I like those ...
 >
 >
 >>cheers,
 >>
 >>Thomas
 >>
 >
 > btw, could we modify the mailing list setup so that replies go to the 
list
 > by default? Sometimes I reply to posts on this mailinglist only to 
see that
 > I sent the reply to the poster instead of the mailing list, which 
prevents
 > discussions to stay on the list.
 >


Mhh, I don't know if this is possible. It's just the SF way of life...

cu,

Thomas


 > regards
 > Joachim Sauer
 >
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