[DERBY-3984] Separate out the small number of build targets which really require JDK1.4 features from the bulk of the targets which ought to compile cleanly against small device libraries

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 10.5.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 10.5.1.1
• Component/s: Build tools
• Issue & fix info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Richard N. Hillegas
• Reporter: Richard N. Hillegas
• Created: 10/Dec/08 16:02
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 08/Jan/09 16:46

Description

It would be good to make jsr169 the default platform for most Derby build targets. This will allow the build to raise compile-time errors when a checkin violates the small-device contract. Only a small number of features (listed in DERBY-3966) really require JDK1.4. Something like the following may work:

1) Finish up DERBY-3966 so that java4compile.classpath defaults to an approximation of ${jdk14xmlSupport}: ${java15compile.classpath}

2) Make compile.classpath default to jsr169compile.classpath

3) Fortunately, jsr169compile.classpath itself already defaults to ${jsr169stubs}:${java14compile.classpath}

4) Change a (hopefully) small number of targets to use java14compile.classpath rather than compile.classpath

Issue Links

• depends upon: DERBY-3966 Do not require JRE 1.4 libraries at compile time since SUN's JDK 1.4 went out of support and can be used on JRE 1.4 without any problem
• is blocked by: DERBY-3995 The tinderbox build should be updated to use CDC/FP 1.1 rather than 1.0 libraries
• is depended upon by: DERBY-3985 Replace BUILDING.txt with a simlified up-to-date BUILDING.html
• is related to: DERBY-3484 build fails if compile.classpath is set to the same value as jsr169compile.classpath
• is related to: DERBY-3996 Change eol style to native on jsr169 stubs