Re: JDBC gripe list

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> wrote:
> On 30 March 2011 12:43, Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, the combination of these two requirements with the
>>> fact that the PostgreSQL driver supports JDK 1.2 or higher means
>>> that this option must not be allowed.
>>
>> Support for JDK1.2 and 1.3 was dropped starting with the 8.4 release.
>>
>> http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html#supported
>
> What do you think about dropping support for 1.4 and requiring 1.5?
>
>  * the issues with generics in JDBC interfaces would hopefully go away
>  * many of the backwards compatibility issues with older JDBC versions
> (e.g. BIT vs BOOLEAN) go away
>  * we can use generics in the driver implementation
>  * we can use java.util.concurrent
>  * many 3rd party libraries become useful (e.g. Netty) - there aren't
> many things that support 1.4 left
>
> I have a hard time dealing with the driver code these days because
> first, I have to forget half of the language tools I usually use ..
>
> Oliver
>

Is there any way to get statistics on downloads of jars ? Might be
useful to see how many times those drivers get downloaded ?


Dave Cramer

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