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Ticket #264 (closed task: wontfix)

Opened 7 months ago

Last modified 4 months ago

GS3 Java 1.4 minimum requirement should be 1.5

Reported by: dmn Assigned to: kjdon
Priority: moderate Milestone: Release 3.05
Component: Greenstone3 Runtime Severity: minor
Keywords: Cc:

Description

In build.xml we have 

<fail if="java.too.old" message="You need Java 1.4 or greater to run Greenstone 3"/>

http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/greenstone3/trunk/build.xml#L381

however, in the Tomcat release notes it says:

"Tomcat 5.5 is designed to run on J2SE 5.0 and later and requires configuration to run on J2SE 1.4."

http://mirror.fslutd.org/apache/tomcat/tomcat-5/v5.5.26/RELEASE-NOTES

Surely we should enforce this guidance?

Change History

2008-03-12 17:05:09 changed by dmn

  • owner changed from nobody to kjdon.

2008-04-03 09:36:31 changed by dmn

  • severity set to blocker.
  • milestone changed from Release 3.04 to Release 3.05.

this is related to JavaScript? processing of metadata:

http://trac.greenstone.org/ticket/290

is Rhino in Java written using 1.5 constructs?

http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/

2008-04-03 09:44:55 changed by dmn

  • type changed from defect to task.

2008-04-03 09:50:46 changed by dmn

for reference, the version release dates are:

J2SE 1.4 (February 6, 2002) J2SE 5.0 (September 30, 2004) Java SE 6 (December 11, 2006)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history

2008-04-03 16:26:36 changed by dmn

  • severity changed from blocker to minor.

2008-05-06 09:21:07 changed by dmn

Also, if we want to do Greenstone + Fedora then Fedora's min. requirement is 1.5:

http://www.fedora.info/download/2.2.1/userdocs/distribution/installation.html

"Whether installing a binary or source distribution, JDK 5.0 is required. The JDK should be installed on the machine you intend to use as the Fedora server." Fedora 2.2.1

2008-06-05 12:02:11 changed by dmn

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.