Re: [Tm4j-developers] Post 0.7 JDK support

[Gerd M. <Ger...@sm...>]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:18:01 +0000
Kal Ahmed <ka...@te...> 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.

Did you already work with the JDK1.4 logging stuff ? Is comparable to Log4J ?
I really like Log4J, also because of the large number of add-ons (EMail-logger,
JDBC-logger, etc.). But finally I don't mind the JDK 1.4 logging framework.

> 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.

As far as I know nobody reported problems with JDK 1.4 and ozone, but
I didn't try it for myself. The only problem a had with JDK 1.4 was
the built-in XML support which conflicts sometimes with other 
XML-parsers such as Xerces.

Best Regards,
Gerd

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