Hi, Thanks for all the comments so far.
Reading through all this, I think I will revert my conversion to generics (and improved for loops) and go back to pure Java 1.4 code and use the normal source and target of "1.4". To still ensure only using Java 1.4 API I already have added the animal sniffer plugin enforcing Java 1.4 API use (it is not 100% safe but probably close enough). This is a major plus for our friends of the embedded world (still depending on Java 1.4) and Java 7 world (not supporting generics in Java 1.4 class files) and requires only a handful of web console developers to limit ourselves. Regards Felix Am 04.01.2012 um 13:16 schrieb Felix Meschberger: > Hi, > > I recently converted the Web Console code to use Generics and added the > target jsr14 flag for the compiler to build Java 1.4 compatible class files. > All fine and well. > > until ... JDK 7 comes along ... > > I just learned that the JDK 7 compiler does not support jsr14 compiled class > files any longer and runs havock... > > So, there are basically three options: > > (a) drop Java 1.4 support completely compiling to Java 5 class files > (b) drop generics (and have Java 1.4 sources again) > (c) have multiple build profiles > > I would like to keep generics. They make a lot of things nicer. But then we > alienate the embedded market ... > > Where shall we go ? > > Regards > Felix
