[Biojava-l] JDK 1.4 in beta release

[Thomas Down]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 09:00:55AM +1200, Schreiber, Mark wrote:
> Maybe the biojava community should discuss when a change to JDK1.4 is
> desirable, maybe after version 1.2 is released future work should be done
> with JDK1.4??

That sounds potentially reasonable.  However, it ultimately
depends on how quickly vendors release 1.4 ports.  Certainly,
I'd want to wait until I'd seen ports for Tru64 Unix and Mac OS X.

To some extent, there's also the question of what API we'll
really want to use.  There are some nice enhancements to the
Collections APIs, and it might be quite hard to avoid those
creeping in over time.  I'd guess BioJava is likely to switch
to using the java.util.regexp package over time, rather than
a 3rd party library.  It would be good if one of the 3rd parties
shipped an implementation of the java.utils.regexp APIs, so
we can switch over now.

We'll also want to switch to using the javax.xml APIs rather
than explicitly depending on the Xerces parser like we do at
the moment.  This can be done straight away, since the APIs
are available as a separate JAR file for 1.2/1.3

Any other APIs people have their eyes on?

   Thomas.