Re: JDBC 4 support

Thanks for the reply. Its more of a general question.

I am looking at adding JDBC4 (JDK1.6) support to Hibernate. So the
question came up about whether to drop JDBC3 support or whether to
support both JDBC3 and JDBC4 simultaneously. Moving to JDBC4
exclusively is largely a function of how well we thought JDBC4/JDK1.6 is
supported both in the various environments as well by the various JDBC
drivers.

Sun's JDK 1.5 is nearing the end of its EOL transition and set to reach
ESOL Oct 31. So in the ideal world (since the release I am targeting
here is November) we would simply drop support for it...

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:07 -0400, Kris Jurka wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>
> > The download page[1] still lists JDBC 4 support as "limited" saying that
> > "the majority of new methods are stubbed out". Is that really still the
> > case? How far off is complete JDBC 4 support?
> >
>
> Tough to say without going through each JDBC 4 feature. The note you
> mention is certainly old, but there are still significant JDBC4
> requirements that haven't been implemented (Wrapper support, specific
> exceptions, ...).
>
> Is there anything in particular that you're interested in?
>
> Kris Jurka
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