Re: JDBC 4 support

I think if your main concern is running the same jdbc3g code under
jdbc4, that's not a problem--we've been using the driver compiled as
both jdbc3g and jdbc4 for a long time and haven't had a single issue.
I believe it's the new jdbc4 features that are stubbed out.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Steve Ebersole <steve@hibernate.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  Its more of a general question.
>
> I am looking at adding JDBC4 (JDK1.6) support to Hibernate.  So the
> question came up about whether to drop JDBC3 support or whether to
> support both JDBC3 and JDBC4 simultaneously.  Moving to JDBC4
> exclusively is largely a function of how well we thought JDBC4/JDK1.6 is
> supported both in the various environments as well by the various JDBC
> drivers.
>
> Sun's JDK 1.5 is nearing the end of its EOL transition and set to reach
> ESOL Oct 31.  So in the ideal world (since the release I am targeting
> here is November) we would simply drop support for it...
>
>
> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:07 -0400, Kris Jurka wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>>
>> > The download page[1] still lists JDBC 4 support as "limited" saying that
>> > "the majority of new methods are stubbed out".  Is that really still the
>> > case?  How far off is complete JDBC 4 support?
>> >
>>
>> Tough to say without going through each JDBC 4 feature.  The note you
>> mention is certainly old, but there are still significant JDBC4
>> requirements that haven't been implemented (Wrapper support, specific
>> exceptions, ...).
>>
>> Is there anything in particular that you're interested in?
>>
>> Kris Jurka
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