[jdom-interest] JDK 1.1 support

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 5:11 PM -0800 3/11/02, Jason Hunter wrote:
>While building the B8 RC, I noticed that our use of statics inside inner
>classes is not supported with JDK 1.1 compilers, as shown below.  I'm
>wondering, do we want to fix this for B8, or just decide that we've
>supported JDK 1.1 long enough?  It's been this way in CVS for a couple
>months and no one's complained.  Who would complain if we didn't support
>JDK 1.1 anymore?
>

Fix it. JDK 1.1 is still a fact of life in the majority of Macs and 
the majority of web browsers.
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