Bhakti,
"Binary" dependency is okay.
We just need the binary dependencies to work with JRE 6.
-Kedar
Bhakti Mehta wrote:
> Rajiv/Kedar,
> I added a note for metro as it is built with JDK 5 and we still support
> it for both JDK 5 and JDK 6 users. Metro gets integrated in v3 as a
> binary dependency
> Please let me know if you need more information
> Regards,
> Bhakti
>
> Rajiv Mordani wrote:
>>
>>
>> Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
>>> Rajiv,
>>>
>>> Rajiv Mordani wrote:
>>>> Hi Kedar,
>>>>
>>>> Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
>>>>> This is what we decided in the morning meeting.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://is.gd/jTnz
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know if we are on the same page.
>>>>>
>>>>> Giving you a summary for convenience:
>>>>>
>>>>> Since by definition, Java EE 6 requires Java SE 6 runtime, it is
>>>>> obvious that we use Java 6 for compilation. Thus, the javac used
>>>>> for compilation of Java sources in GlassFish v3 trunk is /bin/javac
>>>>> (or its equivalent). Now, the target for such a build is Java 6
>>>>> runtime. Thus, by default, i.e. if we don't specify the -target
>>>>> option on javac, the generated classes would have a Major Version
>>>>> of 50.0 (which corresponds to Java 6). Thus, if we did that, all
>>>>> the modules will only create classes that can be loaded by Java 6
>>>>> runtime. In order to support Java 5 runtime which might be required
>>>>> by some of the components (although their source are checked in to
>>>>> v3 trunk), here is the decision taken:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. GlassFish v3 must be run with Java 6+ runtime only. (Can
>>>>> someone clarify if it applies to all the distro's?)
>>>>> 2. We use javac from Java 6 for compilation. Because of that,
>>>>> any module can declare compile-time dependencies on Java 6 classes,
>>>>> e.g. java.io.Console.
>>>>> 3. We use -target as 1.5 which means, by default, the major
>>>>> version of classes generated by build would be 49. This is to take
>>>>> care of running certain modules with Java 5 runtime.
>>>>
>>>> Do we know what the list of modules are that want to run with Java 5
>>>> runtime?
>>>
>>> No, but it is a good time to maintain a list of such modules. Please see
>>> http://is.gd/jYI4.
>>>
>>> Developers -- add your module to this list if you need to support Java 5
>>> runtime. If this list is empty, we should consider removing this
>>> requirement,
>>> so act on it, please.
>>
>> I see that the list is indeed empty. So should we remove this
>> requirement?
>>
>> - Rajiv
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 4. asadmin will detect an attempt to run GlassFish with Java 5
>>>>> Runtime See: 7038 and will flag it as an error.
>>>>
>>>> If asadmin is not going to allow running GlassFish with Java 5
>>>> runtime what's the point of making the target 1.5? Is the
>>>> expectation that some of these modules could be used outside of
>>>> GlassFish and that in such cases they may not want to move to JDK 6?
>>>
>>> Right, that's the theory.
>>>
>>> -Kedar
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Rajiv
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Kedar
>>>>>
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