Update information on JDK 1.3 jta jar

• Key: JDO-360
• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Trivial
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Craig Russell
• Component/s: api11, api2, fostore2, ri11, runtime2, site and infrastructure, tck11, tck2
• Fix Version/s: JDO 2 maintenance release 1

Description

The jdo project is running an old version of the jta jar:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>geronimo-spec</groupId>
            <artifactId>geronimo-spec-jta</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.1B-rc2</version>
        </dependency>

The new version is

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
            <artifactId>geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>

The reason we use this jar instead of the Sun distribution is to allow maven directly to load the jar, which is impossible under the Sun license. There is no harm in changing to the new jar, so we should probably do this in the trunk.

I found we are using this old version issue while trying to figure out if the new jar supports JDK 1.3. But the new jar doesn't either. See below.

We document in http://wiki.apache.org/jdo/J2SESupport
 that we don't support 1.3 and give instructions on how to download the 1.3 version from the Sun web site. It might be an idea to update this page with instructions on how to tell maven to use this jar instead of the geronimo jar, but I think there are already clues about what to do.

Proposed action:

1. Update project.xml in trunk to refer to the new geronimo jar.

2. Update wiki with latest information on how to use the Sun 1.3 distribution.

-20-

5 api20 >java -version
java version "1.3.1_18"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1_18-b01)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1_18-b01, mixed mode)

6 api20 >maven java:compile
 __ __
| \/ |__ _Apache__ ___
| |\/| / _` \ V / -_) ' \ ~ intelligent projects ~
|_| |_\__,_|\_/\___|_||_| v. 1.0.2

Attempting to download geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec-1.0.jar.
11K downloaded
build:start:

java:prepare-filesystem:
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\users\michael\jdo\workspaces\jdo\trunk\api20\target\classes

java:compile:
    [echo] Compiling to c:\users\michael\jdo\workspaces\jdo\trunk\api20/target/classes
    [javac] Compiling 58 source files to C:\users\michael\jdo\workspaces\jdo\trunk\api20\target\classes
C:\users\michael\jdo\workspaces\jdo\trunk\api20\src\java\javax\jdo\Transaction.java:23: cannot access javax.transaction.Synchronization
bad class file: C:\users\michael\.maven\repository\org.apache.geronimo.specs\jars\geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec-1.0.jar(javax/transaction/Synchronization.class)
class file has wrong version 48.0, should be 47.0
Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.
import javax.transaction.Synchronization;
                         ^
1 error

BUILD FAILED

Comments

[Michael Bouschen]

Added all components that should change the jta dependency to refer to the new geronimo jar.

[Michael Bouschen]

I changed the dependency to geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec (see revision 422888).
However, this jar does not support JDK 1.3 either, so I keep the issue open.

[Craig Russell]

This dependency is now on the official transaction api jar published by Sun on a publicly available maven repo.