proxool-developer

[Proxool-developer] JDK 1.2

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

I quietly dropped the JDK 1.2 binary from the last release (0.5). We
still support it with the source distribution but it is increasingly
drifting away from the JDK 1.3+ code. I don't run unit tests on it any
more (although I should). 

We provide JDK support by using Ant to use some different source files
for certain classes (the ones that use the Proxy class). This is a
pretty nasty solution, IMHO).

What do people think about dropping 1.2 support? Or, alternatively,
fully testing Proxool 0.5 against JDK 1.2 and then just letting 1.2
users use that one (and requiring JDK 1.3+ for Proxool 0.6)?

Regards,
Bill

[Proxool-developer] JDK 1.2

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

Hi all,

Just thought I'd kick off a discussion about JDK 1.2. I've been talking
to an AIX user who is stuck on JDK 1.2 and we might want to reconsider
our stated plan of only supporting 1.2 for bug fixes beyond version 1.0.

Whilst browsing the avalon-dev mail list I notice that they are
considering the use of CGLIB (which has just recently released 1.0) as a
drop in replacement for the Proxy class in JDK 1.3. 

Any thoughts on actually replacing our use of Proxy with this? (And then
only needing one distribution for JDK 1.2 and later). Obviously, we
would run tests and require it not to be significantly slower.

Cheers,
Bill

[Proxool-developer] JDK 1.2

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

Hi Abhishek,

You're quite right, our decision not to use the JDK Proxy is because we
wanted to support JDK 1.2. We haven't reviewed that decision for a few
years, but since it works well the Cglib I don't see much motivation to
change. You could make a case for deprecating JDK 1.2 but it might not be
worth it when there are other fish to fry.

-
Bill

Re: [Proxool-developer] JDK 1.2

[Bas C. <ba...@ci...>]

Bill Horsman wrote:
> What do people think about dropping 1.2 support? Or, alternatively,
> fully testing Proxool 0.5 against JDK 1.2 and then just letting 1.2
> users use that one (and requiring JDK 1.3+ for Proxool 0.6)?

In my opinion the time has come to drop 1.2 support. Our product - which
will depend on the proxool jar - requires Sun's JRE 1.3.1.

Bas

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