[Biojava-dev] JDK 1.4.1 now available for OS X

David Huen david.huen at ntlworld.com
Wed Mar 12 20:59:16 EST 2003


On Wednesday 12 Mar 2003 8:19 pm, Schreiber, Mark wrote:
> Hi -
>
> Along these lines, I think I was one of the only developers who still
> tried to build to java 1.3.1 I have recently moved all my JVMs to 1.4.1.
> In the past I used to spot a couple of non java1.3.1 things per week.
> These where minor things which where caused by, for example, new methods
> being added to StringBuffer in 1.4.
>
> Is anyone still building to 1.3.1 and spotting these minor things? If
> not we should probably not advertise ourselves as being 1.3 compatible
> any longer.
>
Is DEC/Compaq/HP/<name next mismanaging owner> Alpha at 1.4 yet?  If not, 
will they ever be?  Do we care?  If we don't, will 1.3 final be the last 
JVM-1.3 supported BJ (and it may well be where BJ 1 enters maintenance mode 
anyway)? Answers in an email.....

How about Itanium 2?

David Huen



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