Re: [Tm4j-developers] Post 0.7 JDK support

[Jack P. <jac...@th...>]

I can only think of one reason for holding back: Macintosh.  As far as I 
know, it's still locked into 1.3, but maybe that's changing 
soon.  Otherwise, 1.4 would, at least for me, be a good idea.

Cheers
Jack

At 09:18 PM 4/29/2002 +0000, Kal Ahmed wrote:
>OK, I promise that this is the last email for this evening.
>
>Now that the dust has settled on JDK1.4, I would like to gather people's
>opinions on what JDK version the release after 0.7.0 (1.0 ? ;-) should
>require. My feeling is that we should move with the times and go up to
>JDK1.4. My reasons are:
>
>1) TM4J has never supported development of applets that run in a browser VM
>(i.e JDK 1.1.8). So there is nothing to be broken there.
>2) JDK1.4 would enable us to ditch Log4J - reducing the number of additional
>jars we need to bundle up by one.
>3) Most importantly, JDK1.4 has much better URI handling than JDK1.3.x - my
>impression is that with JDK1.4 we could remove the org.tm4j.net package
>entirely. JDK1.4 URIs are serialisable, so there should be no probs with the
>Ozone implementation. Moving to JDK1.4 would also mean that developers would
>be able to use a familiar URI object interface rather than having to learn
>the TM4J way. To be honest, I never really saw all the network address
>handling as being a fundamental part of TM4J - I just did it because I had
>to...and now I'm quite glad that Sun have thrown me a lifeline to get out of
>having to maintain it (and implement URNs ;-)
>
>However, there may be some arguments in favour of sticking with our current
>JDK level (1.3.1) - for example, I am kind of assuming that Ozone is happy
>with JDK1.4 (I can't think of any reason why not...I guess I should go try it
>:-).  Finally, remember I am *not* talking about the 0.7.0 release which,
>when it happens, will still be JDK1.3.1 compatible.
>
>If you have any comments on this, please share them!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kal
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