[Registry-dev] Initial plan for 0.1 release

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

Right .. but we also have to think of the Registry client API .. which is 
what people will want to use from 1.4. So one option is simply do two 
impls of that; one that uses 1.4 and one that uses 1.5.

Sanjiva.

Paul Fremantle wrote:
> I dont agree that having a 1.5 dependency for the registry implies
> that dependency for axis and syn - there could be lots of 1.4 axis
> instances running on the network accessing a single registry.
> Paul
> 
> On 22/08/07, Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva at wso2.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to write code using 1.5 stuff and turn a compiler option to
>> generate 1.4 bytecodes??
>>
>> Sanjiva.
>>
>> Glen Daniels wrote:
>>> Hi Asankha, all:
>>>
>>> Asankha C. Perera wrote:
>>>> We noticed that since we focussed on JDK 1.4 (at least a bit) and 1.5
>>>> for the last release, we didn't test on 1.6 which *is* the latest JDK
>>>> available. I don't think this is right and was actually proven when
>>>> some users tried it on 1.6. Thus its better to let go of 1.4 now, and
>>>> focus on 1.5 and 1.6, unless someone really wants it so bad that they
>>>> will actually pay us to support it..
>>>>
>>>> Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
>>>>> Only problem with adopting 1.5 is that it means if Synapse/Axis2 are
>>>>> to use this then they will also only run on 1.5 :(.
>>>>>
>>>>> So unfortunately the decision is tied to whether Axis2/Synapse (and
>>>>> hence WSAS/ESB) will continue to support 1.4 or not.
>>> I agree with Sanjiva - unless Axis and Synapse BOTH move to 1.5, we
>>> cannot move the registry to 1.5.  This isn't just a question of WSO2 and
>>> our customers, it's one of the Apache user base (if we want to have a
>>> hope of wide pickup of our registry APIs).
>>>
>>> We should definitely be testing with 1.6 as well, though.
>>> Continuum/Bamboo should help out here.
>>>
>>> --Glen
>>>
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