Hi Alexey,
Thanks for the quick response and the confirmation regarding
JDK6/Servlet3.0 interop. I look forward to trying and testing Grizzly 2.3
very soon then! :-)
Matt
On 21 March 2013 09:11, Oleksiy Stashok <oleksiy.stashok_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt.
>
>
> On 20.03.13 04:26, Matthew Swift wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> We've just noticed that Servlet 3.1b03 onwards require JDK7[1]. I'm not
> sure if this is an intentional change since 3.1 b01 required only JDK5, but
> it will have implications for Grizzly and any applications and libraries
> which use Grizzly 2.3 HTTP Servlet onwards, since they will be required to
> use JDK7. Were you aware of these changes?
>
> Yes, we were :)
> Unfortunately Servlet 3.1 API introduced this dependency, so we have to
> follow if we want to support it.
>
>
>
> Also, once 2.3 is released will it be possible to use it with Servlet
> 3.0 instead of 3.1? This question is less important if Servlet 3.1 is
> reverted back to supporting JDK6.
>
> We'll try to compile/deliver 2.3 servlet module with JDK 1.6 as target. So
> it'll be possible to use Grizzly 2.3 servlet module and Servlet 3.0 API on
> JDK6 (I need to doublecheck that).
>
>
> Finally, when is the expected release date for Grizzly 2.3?
>
> We want to integrate 2.3 to Glassfish 4 and hardcode freeze for Glassfish
> 4 is next Monday... so we'll release 2.3 this week or early next week :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> WBR,
> Alexey.
>
>
>
> Cheers! :-)
>
> Matt
> [1]
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/servlet/javax.servlet-api/3.1-b03/javax.servlet-api-3.1-b03.pom
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