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Re: [cobalt-developers] Fw: Apache upgrade on RaQ 550

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:25, Jevon MacDonald wrote:
> My thoughts are:
>     Install the JDK 1.4 into it's own directory and symlink it in to the 
> system. There are some discrepancies between 1.3 and 1.4 that could 
> break some of your code, but you should test that in advance anyway.

I agree. Symbolic links are one of best tools in testing new software. I
symbolic link as much as I can. So I can swap between versions quickly
and painlessly.

>     It seems that a Tomcat upgrade should be similar: install it and 
> then symlink it into place... But I am not sure or the changes in the 
> conf files for the newer Tomcat... I would love to know.

Worse case those can be migrated over.

Further more on the JDK front, if Sun follows their own standards,
anything in the current JDK that is additional should be in the 

jdk/jre/lib/ext

So you may need to migrate any jars over from there. Unless they are
already present in the new JDK.

Otherwise JDK 1.4 should not break anything that is compatible with JDK
1.3

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