Hello everyone,
I originally posted this question to the developers list, but was asked
to repeat it here.
I'm working on some new functionality I plan to submit for Lucene. In
doing this I've noticed that Lucene currently maintains compatibility
with JDK 1.1. This has some disadvantages for instance the use of
"vector" versus some of the new collections. Next, some of the
functionality I plan to add requires JDK 1.2. Finally, some of the
internationalization features of Java do not work well in 1.1. For
these reasons I suggest a move to 1.2+. While it seems reasonable to me
to drop support for a >4 year old version of the JDK, I realize it may
still present a problem to some users and would like to raise a
discussion on this.
How many people are still using 1.1 and would be negatively affected by
Lucene's use of 1.2 features? Of those, how many people can not move to
1.2 for server side development?
-Andy
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www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html
- fix java generics!
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to
vote.
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I originally posted this question to the developers list, but was asked
to repeat it here.
I'm working on some new functionality I plan to submit for Lucene. In
doing this I've noticed that Lucene currently maintains compatibility
with JDK 1.1. This has some disadvantages for instance the use of
"vector" versus some of the new collections. Next, some of the
functionality I plan to add requires JDK 1.2. Finally, some of the
internationalization features of Java do not work well in 1.1. For
these reasons I suggest a move to 1.2+. While it seems reasonable to me
to drop support for a >4 year old version of the JDK, I realize it may
still present a problem to some users and would like to raise a
discussion on this.
How many people are still using 1.1 and would be negatively affected by
Lucene's use of 1.2 features? Of those, how many people can not move to
1.2 for server side development?
-Andy
--
www.superlinksoftware.com
www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html
- fix java generics!
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to
vote.
-Ambassador Kosh
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