Fine with me. 1.3 is EOL at Sun anyway.
Anyone still using it should do whatever they can to move to 1.4 or later
(preferably 1.5, 6.0 is garbage).
If losing support for 3rd party libraries speeds such moves, that can only
be a good thing in my opinion.

Just about the only people still using 1.3 with no upgrade path are those
stuck with WebLogic 6 or contemporary application servers because they have
customers who refuse to upgrade their JVMs to a later one.
I doubt those application see much development in areas that requires new
capabilities in their JDBC drivers.

Support for 1.4 is something else. There's a LOT of corporate development
being done on that still, and it's a long time from being declared EOL.

Jeroen Wenting

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Firebird-
> Java@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Roman Rokytskyy
> Sent: zaterdag 28 juni 2008 15:12
> To: Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Firebird-Java] Poll about dropping the support for JDKs 1.3.x
> and 1.4.x
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently preparing Jaybird 2.2 beta release (fixing open bugs,
> cleaning up the code) and am thinking about dropping the support for
> JDKs 1.3.x and 1.4.x in HEAD. This would significantly simplify the
> code
> base and release management.
>
> This means that Jaybird 2.2 will be available for JDK 5.0 and 6.0. For
> those that need support for JDK 1.4.x (I doubt that there is anybody
> using JDK 1.3.x) the Jaybird 2.1 branch will be still there, so
> bugfixes
> will be possible.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Roman
>
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