[jdom-interest] Moving from an older JDOM

[Bradley S. Huffman]

Bob Jacobsen writes:

> My project is currently using JDOM B6, in particular the jdom-jdk11.jar form.
> 
> The project needs to run under JAVA 1.1.8 on Macintosh Classic and 
> OS/2, because a noticible number of the users are still running those 
> old machines.  (It's a model railroading tool, so is often running on 
> hand-me-down machines)
> 
> We should probably move forward to a more recent version. The JDOM 
> FAQ suggests building from CVS using the code as of "late March" 
> 2003.  We can do that, but I'd rather use a specific build of JDOM. 
> Beta 8 seems to be the last one before that (it's from 2002), and 
> Beta 9 seems to be after that.  Is that right?
> 
> Is there some specific date/time or tag that people would recommend?

Looks like B8 still has build11.bat/build11.sh.  But if B6 is running
and your application isn't affect by any bugs in it, why switch?

Brad