Re: [Springframework-developer] Re: [Springframework-user] applicationContext.xml for servlet 2.2

[Rod J. <rod...@in...>]

Well put.

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From: "Colin Sampaleanu" <col...@ex...>
To: "jürgen höller [werk3AT]" <jue...@we...>;
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Re: [Springframework-user]
applicationContext.xml for servlet 2.2


> I think it's great to keep features in there that are at no cost allow
> the framework to still work in legacy environments.  I would only make
> the comment that I hope in the future if there are compelling features
> that only work in a Servlet 2.3+ environment, the need to maintain 2.2
> compatibility would not be an impediment to adding them.
>
> (As an analogy, Ant up to and including 1.5.3 has a few incredibly
> annoying classloading limitations, primarilly due to the fact that they
> wanted to maintain JDK 1.1 compatibility. However for the benefit of the
> 1% of ant users who need JDK 1.1 compatibility, the other 99% have
> suffered somewhat.)