Re: Binaries for next releases

[Ralph Goers]

Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:

Ralph Goers wrote:

That is an interesting thought.  It would be nice to be able to take 
advantage of generics, the enhanced for loop and autoboxing.  But we 
need to allow running with JDK 1.4 so we could use retroweaver to 
allow that.


Sounds really cool! I would love to be able to use Java 1.5. Have you 
any experience from using retroweaver 
(http://retroweaver.sourceforge.net/)? It has BSD license so we should 
be able to use it.

/Daniel

No, I have no direct experience with Retroweaver. When I was looking at 
workflow engines I came across PXE 
(http://pxe.fivesight.com/wiki/display/PXE/Home) which uses 
Retroweaver.  Supposedly it works pretty good.

BTW - I have seen references from various places that indicate simply 
running (not necessarily compiling) with Java 5 performs better than 
Java 1.4. If true users should be encouraged to do that whenever possible.

Ralph