Re: JDBC Connection Issue
Lew wrote:
That said, I also was just on a project that still uses 1.4. To their
credit, they're finally now upgrading (gradually) to the (also now
obsolescent) Java 5.
The actual conversion took about a week for roughly a million lines of
code.
Arne Vajh??j wrote:
But how long time did it take to retest?
The test suites ran in a few hours.
They had extensive test suites in place already. Nearly everything just
worked, so most of the stuff passed their tests and didn't require adjustment.
The biggest single problem came from code that depended on a Java 1.4 bug
that initialized classes upon reference to the 'class' literal. As I recall
(the conversion itself was a couple of years ago), the workaround was quickly
found and implemented. The bulk of the week of conversion was renaming things
that had 'enum' as part of the package name, and those were Apache Commons
Lang libraries that already had a substitute package set in place so we just
used the IDE's global search-and-replace for that.
That one bug (dependency on class initialization from the 'class' literal) was
the only serious issue, and affected only a few classes in the code base. For
the rest, we found that Java 5 supported Java 1.4 source just fine.
--
Lew
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