Re: Problem updating to WebObjects 5.2.2
Re: Problem updating to WebObjects 5.2.2
- Subject: Re: Problem updating to WebObjects 5.2.2
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:15:22 -0800
Hi PA,
At 02:52 AM 29/10/2003 +0100, petite_abeille wrote:
>On Oct 28, 2003, at 23:32, Chuck Hill wrote:
>
>> I'm happy about that. The Java API changed between 1.3 and 1.4.
>
>Right... this happen from time to time, isn't it?
>
Sometimes more than others. :-)
>> If they had maintained backward compatibility
>
>Is not "backward compatibility" at all cost one of the holy goal of
>Java?
>
But that is older software running on a newer JVM (i.e. the 5.2.1 that sort
of, mostly ran under 1.4.1), not newer software running on an older JVM, no?
>> that would have prevented them from using some of the new features in
>> 1.4.
>
>Hmmmm... like what?
>
I dunno, they must have used something or it would run OK on 1.3!
>> And those new features are why we wanted 1.4, aren't they?
>
>For example? What essential 1.4 feature is the latest WebObjects using?
>NIO? Regex? Prefs? Logging? Boolean.valueOf()?
>
For me is it the extended support in the JCE, JASS, JNDI, etc. etc. Some
of that was available as add ons for 1.3.1, but not all of it, and none of
the parts I wanted to use.
>> I'm still not all that keen on Java
>
>How could you not be? The future is bright, the future is Java :|
>
Shudder.
>> but if we must have Java 1.4 or later is the place to be.
>
>Hmmm... why would that be?
>
The extensions I mentioned above, to start with. Plus compatibility with
anything reasonably new in Java. I don't see any new tools or libraries
being built for 1.3.1. Its over. I have seen a lot of things that I
wanted to use that required Java 1.4.1. I did not want to run an
unsupported WO configuration so I was forced to pass them by (or pay
through the nose for compatible commercial versions). More is more (except
on some UNIXii where less is more, but that is another incredibly bad play
on words masquerading as a command line tool).
Chuck
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Chuck Hill email@hidden
Global Village Consulting Inc. http://www.global-village.net
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