[gentoo-java] Is JDK 1.3 still used?

[gentoo-java] Is JDK 1.3 still used?

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

Hi gang,

as you may know, we're working on the migration to Java 1.5, much thanks
to all the hard work done by Thomas Mathijs (of axxo-overlay fame).

The migration brings about something of a spring cleaning, too. We'd
like to remove packages that are not in use and cause more harm than good.

One candidate for removal are the 1.3 JDKs on x86. We are aware that 1.3
JDKs may still be the latest and greatest on some platforms, they seem
very much out of vogue on x86.

Does anybody still need/use the 1.3 JDK on x86?

Cheers,

-- Karl T
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Re: [gentoo-java] Is JDK 1.3 still used?

[Ray Hunter]

Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> as you may know, we're working on the migration to Java 1.5, much thanks
> to all the hard work done by Thomas Mathijs (of axxo-overlay fame).
> 
> The migration brings about something of a spring cleaning, too. We'd
> like to remove packages that are not in use and cause more harm than good.
> 
> One candidate for removal are the 1.3 JDKs on x86. We are aware that 1.3
> JDKs may still be the latest and greatest on some platforms, they seem
> very much out of vogue on x86.
> 
> Does anybody still need/use the 1.3 JDK on x86?

I know there are still some application servers that use 1.3 and i use
it alot to test with before i actually deploy to those servers. I know
that there are some java apps that require the 1.3 to compile their
source. i have been looking at doing the apache derby ebuild and that
one require that you use 1.3 and 1.4 to build certain parts of it
(http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html#How+to+build+Derby) so
i think there still might be some need for 1.3.

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Re: [gentoo-java] Is JDK 1.3 still used?

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

Ray Hunter wrote:

> I know there are still some application servers that use 1.3 and i use
> it alot to test with before i actually deploy to those servers. I know
> that there are some java apps that require the 1.3 to compile their
> source. i have been looking at doing the apache derby ebuild and that
> one require that you use 1.3 and 1.4 to build certain parts of it
> (http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html#How+to+build+Derby) so
> i think there still might be some need for 1.3.

Those are the signals I get from other people as well, so we'll keep the
1.3 JDK.


Cheers,

-- Karl T
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Re: [gentoo-java] Is JDK 1.3 still used?

[David Emmett]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Ray Hunter wrote:

> Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> > One candidate for removal are the 1.3 JDKs on x86. We are aware that 1.3
> > JDKs may still be the latest and greatest on some platforms, they seem
> > very much out of vogue on x86.
> >
> > Does anybody still need/use the 1.3 JDK on x86?
>
> I know there are still some application servers that use 1.3 and i use
> it alot to test with before i actually deploy to those servers. I know
> that there are some java apps that require the 1.3 to compile their
> source.

I too have to use 1.3 to support older application servers. I usually
develop and compile against 1.3, to ensure I don't start using any *fancy
1.4 features*, such as regex support, but run my own apps against 1.4.

David


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[gentoo-java] Re: Is JDK 1.3 still used?

[Jörg Schaible]

Hi Karl,

Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:

> Hi gang,
> 
> as you may know, we're working on the migration to Java 1.5, much thanks
> to all the hard work done by Thomas Mathijs (of axxo-overlay fame).
> 
> The migration brings about something of a spring cleaning, too. We'd
> like to remove packages that are not in use and cause more harm than good.
> 
> One candidate for removal are the 1.3 JDKs on x86. We are aware that 1.3
> JDKs may still be the latest and greatest on some platforms, they seem
> very much out of vogue on x86.
> 
> Does anybody still need/use the 1.3 JDK on x86?

Yes. For some libs it is still important to be 1.3 compatible and Gentoo 
offers a nice way to have multiple jdk versions installed - including 1.3.x 
versions, so I can switch as necessary to take care of compatibility issues.

- Jörg

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