Alternatives for jcifs which is compatible with jdk 1.4?

You don't have to upgrade JBoss. Create a simple service in Java 6 which does what you want which can be accessed from your JBoss server. You can't expect a simple solution to connecting a version of Java which EOLed before Windows 7 was even released BTW: Java 1.4 was EOLed two years ago, and asssuming Java 8 is released in 2012, Java 6 will start its EOL period then.

Don't wait too long. ;).

You don't have to upgrade JBoss. Create a simple service in Java 6 which does what you want which can be accessed from your JBoss server. You can't expect a simple solution to connecting a version of Java which EOLed before Windows 7 was even released.

BTW: Java 1.4 was EOLed two years ago, and asssuming Java 8 is released in 2012, Java 6 will start its EOL period then. Don't wait too long. ;).

If you upgrade to jdk6, you could still use jboss 3.2 and ejb 2 running on jdk6, don't you. I'm not aware of any (likely? ) compability problems.

Please advise, if I'm missing anything. Another idea: Setup an iis in front of the jboss and let it handle the authentication. Btw: Even Java 5 was EOLed in 2009: java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.

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