Hello Stephan,
The switch can be relatively painless unless you have a lot of AJAX
functionality using the 4.3 format.
One of the biggest things I have found is the theme in 4.2 has a couple of
items that developers may use, for example: auto-submit on change uses
onChange="webui.suntheme4_2.common.timeoutSubmitForm(this.form,
'dropDown1');" which is the 4.2 theme method. On 4.3 the method looks like
this onChange="woodstock4_3.common.timeoutSubmitForm(this.form,
'dropDown1');". You would need to change the themes.
Your mileage may vary, but I am using the 4.3 Build 7 version without many
issues. Sun stated that it would support 4.2, but I like the additional
functionality of 4.3. I think the community has a chance to really take-off
and grow so I will continue using 4.3 without "official" Sun support.
BTW- I took a 4.3 Build 7 project and opened it in 6.5. If you save it, it
will revert to the old libraries with the caveats I mentioned above. In my
case, the project worked as expected.
John
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Stephan Bardubitzki <
stephan_at_bardubitzki.com> wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> it seem the Woodstock mailing list has some problems today so I send you my
> reply to your email address. I hope you don't mind.
>
> thanks for your advise. Now I learned that I have must installed Woodstock
> 4.3.1 long time ago on NB6.1 without remembering for what reason.
>
> Anyway, since I know SUN (NB) will support only Woodstock 4.2 is there a
> way to safely switch back to this version?
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Stephan
>
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