[MOBY-dev] What versions of JAVA is everyone using?

[Eddie Kawas]

Martin,

May I ask you what it was you thought would be placed in the
packages client, shared, and registry when you created them?

Thanks,

Eddie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: moby-dev-bounces at portal.open-bio.org [mailto:moby-
> dev-bounces at portal.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Martin
> Senger
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 6:45 AM
> To: Core developer announcements
> Subject: Re: [MOBY-dev] What versions of JAVA is everyone
> using?
> 
> > I was wondering if people could let me know what version
> of
> > Java people are using. I was hoping to see if we could
> > somehow push everyone towards using 1.5 in the near
> future.
> >
>    There will never be a single date when people can stop
> using the old
> version and start to use the new version. Therefore, there
> should be
> some "transitional rules" to follow. The rules must be
> both for
> the compilation and run-time. Here is how it perhaps can
> work:
> 
>    a) The run-time is completely up to the code developer.
> If [s]he
> insists (needs) to use newer Java 1.5 his/her code should
> be written in a
> way that it throws an exception if run under older JVM.
> 
>    b) The compilation time can be solved by having Java
> version checks in
> Ant. Ant is prepared for it, and I can make it into jMoby
> build.xml. So if
> you have a code, that you wish to commit to jMoby and this
> code requires
> 1.5. please send it first to me and I will make the
> changes in build.xml.
> 
>    b1) There may be other targets in Ant (other than
> compilation) that
> depend on Java version - such as deploying web services
> under Axis (as
> pointed out Tom). I can also help with version checking
> for such targets
> if you let me know (at the moment there is no such target
> in build.xml).
> 
>    Cheers,
>    Martin
> 
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