[Proxool-developer] [Fwd: DataSource and JDK 1.2]

[Bill H. <bi...@lo...>]

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> From: Christian Nedregaard <chr...@em...>
> Subject: DataSource and JDK 1.2
> Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 14:56:53 +0100

> I'm wrapping up the DataSource support :)
> 
> JDK 1.3+ have JNDI included so there's no additional dependecies
> there.
> 
> However, JDK 1.2 does not come bundled with JNDI. Users will not have
> a problem running a binary Proxool distribution as the JNDI
> entrypoint will be through reflection (as we did with JMX). 
> 
> JDK 1.2 users will not be able to compile Proxool without having the
> JNDI jar present in their classpath. Unlike the JMX and JDBC
> extentions the JNDI jar is not redistributable. This means that 1.2
> users will have to make the effort of downloading the jar from Sun to
> compile.
> 
> We need to document this somewhere. In fact, would it not be a good
> idea to have a top level "dependencies" page in our docs?
> Here we could explain that cglib is the only mandatory dependency
> (which is pretty cool), and then go on to explain what type of usage
> would add other dependencies.
> 
> By the way: 
> What is the status of the cglib/hibernate versioning saga? Is it ok
> for me to check in the DataSource stuff now if it comes with a
> working test suite? 
> 
> CHR