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Re: Grizzly 2.3 release date and Servlet dependencies

From: Oleksiy Stashok <oleksiy.stashok_at_oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:42:57 -0700

Hi Matt,

fixed.
http://java.net/jira/browse/GRIZZLY-1467

WBR,
Alexey.

On 21.03.13 05:24, Matthew Swift wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>
>