Re: [Tm4j-developers] Post 0.7 JDK support

[Kal A. <ka...@te...>]

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 07:39, Gerd Mueller wrote:
> 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 peopl=
e's
> > opinions on what JDK version the release after 0.7.0 (1.0 ? ;-) shoul=
d
> > require. My feeling is that we should move with the times and go up t=
o
> > JDK1.4. My reasons are:
> >
> > 1) TM4J has never supported development of applets that run in a brow=
ser
> > 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 L=
og4J
> ? 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.

I haven't worked with JDK1.4 logging really at all - most of my comments =
are=20
based on reading the javadoc....probably not a good substitute for actual=
ly=20
writing some code...then again, TM4J is where most of my Java code gets=20
written these days ;-)
>
> > 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 O=
zone
> > 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 wh=
ich,
> >
> > 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.
>
OK - it sounds like there shouldn't be a problem then. I have 1.4 install=
ed on=20
my main development machine now - so I guess I can try it out today.

Cheers,

Kal