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Still important to support Java 1.1 ??

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Rony G. Flatscher

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Jan 31, 2003, 10:00:43 AM1/31/03
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Hi there,

for a little project I am curious, whether it is still necessary to support Java 1.1 (i.e 1.1.8) or
whether one could forgo such a support without harming anyone in the OS/2 community (and target 1.3
instead) ?

---rony


Bob Eager

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Jan 31, 2003, 10:51:05 AM1/31/03
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Anyone who hasn't bought either SWC or eComStation does not have access
to 1.3.


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Brad BARCLAY

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Jan 31, 2003, 10:58:52 AM1/31/03
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Java 1.1 is still highly prevalent in the OS/2 world. So you wind up
having to ask yourself a question: do you want your code to support the
greatest number of users, or do you need the new functionality of the
Java 1.3 API?

I went through a similar process for the next release of the
jSyncManager (http://www.jsyncmanager.org). OS/2 users have long been
our best supporters, but at the same time I'm not sure if IBM's
insistance that it charge people a subscription fee just to get the
latest Java is a good enough reason to hold back the users on every
other platform.

I decided on a hybrid approch. The core synchronization engine is
designed to be fully compatible with _both_ the Java 1.1 and Java 1.3
APIs (that is, it uses Java 1.1 without using any methods that are
deprecated in Java 1.3, particularily things like Thread.stop()). The
new GUI, however, is going to be designed with Java 1.3 in mind. At the
same time, I've updated the old GUI so that it supports all the updates
to the synchronization engine, so it can continue to be used by those
people who are running Java 1.1. The result is a balance between being
able to use new features, while at the same time supporting a wide
audience of users.

Brad BARCLAY
Lead Developer & Project Administrator,
The jSyncManager Project.

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Christian Hennecke

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Jan 31, 2003, 4:48:11 PM1/31/03
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:00:43 UTC, "Rony G. Flatscher"
<Rony.Fl...@wu-wien.ac.at> wrote:

I'd say that it strongly depends on your targetted audience. Large
enterprises will probably have purchased SWC or Passport Advantage,
while there are still lots of end-users who have neither purchased
SWC/PA nor eComStation.
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bernd hohmann

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Feb 1, 2003, 4:52:25 PM2/1/03
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it depends on your target.

the JVM bugs (and ways to knock them down) of 1.1.8 are well known
and i prefer this version for most of my professional applications.

bernd

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