Author: kkolinko
Date: Sat Aug 11 16:55:35 2012
New Revision: 1371976
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1371976&view=rev
Log:
Rephrase. It is followup to my r1371017.
Modified:
tomcat/trunk/BUILDING.txt
Modified: tomcat/trunk/BUILDING.txt
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/BUILDING.txt?rev=1371976&r1=1371975&r2=1371976&view=diff
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--- tomcat/trunk/BUILDING.txt (original)
+++ tomcat/trunk/BUILDING.txt Sat Aug 11 16:55:35 2012
@@ -44,20 +44,26 @@ source distribution, do the following:
http://openjdk.java.net/install/index.html
or another JDK vendor.
- Note:
- Apache Tomcat builds a private copy of the Apache Commons DBCP
- library, which is used to provide support for database connection
- pooling. As far as java.sql interfaces differ in different Java
- versions, the library can be successfully compiled only with the
- specified version of JDK.
+ Note regarding later versions of Java:
- See Apache Commons DBCP project web site for more details,
- http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/
+ As documented elsewhere, one of components in Apache Tomcat includes
+ a private copy of the Apache Commons DBCP library. The source code
+ for this library is downloaded, processed by the build script
+ (renaming the packages) and compiled.
+
+ Due to changes in JDBC interfaces implemented by the library between
+ versions of Java SE specification, the library has to target specific
+ version of Java and can be compiled only with the JDK version
+ implementing this version of specification.
+
+ See Apache Commons DBCP project web site for more details on
+ available versions of the library and its requirements,
+
+ http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/
If you really want to use a later version of JDK to build Tomcat,
- several workarounds are possible. One of them is to skip building the
- library. Note though that you might not be able to create a "release"
- without it.
+ several workarounds are possible. One of them is to skip building
+ the component (tomcat-dbcp.jar).
3. Install the JDK according to the instructions included with the release.
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