Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring 1.2 Support for JDK 1.3

[Juergen H. <ju...@in...>]

I'm a little unclear where that discussion started... Any JDK 1.3
compatibility issues with Spring and/or Acegi?

I can assure you that Spring 1.2.x and also Spring 1.3.x will continue to
support JDK 1.3 as far as possible. In parallel, we do support a number of
JDK 1.4 and 1.5 features where it makes sense, without tying the overall
framework to those versions.

BTW, Spring can currently be built on either JDK 1.5 or 1.4. On 1.4, it will
simply not include the JDK 1.5 support, resulting in slightly smaller jar
files. In any case, almost everything will run on JDK 1.3 as well; Spring is
built with "-target 1.3".

If built on JDK 1.4 ("buildtests"), the test suite can even be run on 1.3
("tests"): all 1.4-dependent tests will simply be excluded then. This is
what I'm running before every release as a sanity check for 1.3
compatibility.

Juergen
 

-----Original Message-----
From: spr...@li...
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Ben Alex
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 4:49 AM
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Subject: [Springframework-developer] Spring 1.2 Support for JDK 1.3

Scott McCrory wrote:

>In short, I'd be just a tiny voice asking for Spring 1.2+ to maintain 
>JDK
>1.3 compatability, but is it too late to decouple Acegi from Spring 1.2+?
>  
>
I'll move this to the Spring Developers mailing list, as it's more related
to Spring than Acegi Security. Juergen posted an email in April that gave me
the impression Spring's JDK 1.3 support was pretty good: 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.springframework.devel/8208. Is this
no longer the case?

We would have a difficult time maintaining support for multiple Spring
versions in Acegi Security. I would prefer to know that Spring 1.2
definitely could not support JDK 1.3 before going down that path.

Cheers
Ben


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