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Scott:
Check out this (fresh) posting from Jeff McAffer (an authority in the
matter :-) ) and the related thread for Europa.
IMHO, staying on 1.4 for long is typically better.
I
know it mays seems a pain, yet 1.5 sugar is something I have learned to do
without, for the sake of re-usability.
Cordially
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Cheers
Philippe
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Hi
Phillippe,
Thanks for the input.
After further
consideration (and some more sleep) I think that requiring 1.5 as soon as
November would be a mistake. I know I suggested end of November in an
earlier posting, but I'm now thinking it would be better to stay with
requiring only 1.4 JRE for at least another 6 months in order to keep EE
options as open as possible...at least into 2007. I think that staying
with 1.4 for at least 6 months will help keep the barriers to entry low, and
ease ECF adoption during a transition out of incubation.
I would like
to use generics and other 1.5 features in ECF provider implementations, but
admittedly this is more programming convenience than requirement. If a
given provider requires 1.5 then so be it, but I don't want to require 1.5 in
the core and API plugins (e.g. presence, datashare, fileshare/filetransfer,
discovery, etc).
Thoughts about collab plugin in response to Erkki's
posting...forthcoming.
Scott
Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
Remy:
But, just what EE should the core ECF stand at? If you think we should
stick to 1.4 "for now", just how long is "for now" though?
+1 for using ME as EE, if possible. Beyond the fact that a framework
should impose as minimal depdencies as possible, and the fact that 1.5
is NOT linux distro friendly, it would also make general use of ECF
easier, including possible use for things like provisioning in the
platform.
ME being for sure a better option than 1.4.
Or more precisely to match the Eclipse platform core plugins:
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: CDC-1.0/Foundation-1.0,J2SE-1.3
Now that's always a bummer when you code not to have the laest
goodies...
Yet, imho the benefits of wider portability far outweights missing bits
of the latest goodies.
Which point to one important thing: the EE SHOULD always be specified in
the manifest.
That's the case for ECF, yet not the case for the Jxta implementation @
OSUOSL.
And that's valid regardless of the the EE chosen of course.
+1 for refactoring the collab plugin and exposing as an examplary
implementation rather than an example.
The same way the JDT is an examplary -- not an example-- implementation.
Just my +2 cents :-)
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