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Christophe Herreman commented on FLEX-48:
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The upgrade involved quite a few steps. One of them was replacing the Batik
build file with a newer version, which makes the patch file a lot bigger.
(Batik is built from the sources with modifications). I've created separate
patch files for all the files I needed to change. This should make it easier to
understand the different changes.
To summarize:
* Upgraded Batik from 1.6 to 1.7. Batik 1.7 can be compiled with Java 7 if the
"sun-codecs.disabled" property is set to true. Batik 1.6 does not have this
option, hence the necessary upgrade. The path to the unzipped Batik sources is
also different between 1.6 and 1.7.
* Code was removed from Batik in the 1.7 release, which is available in
xml-apis-ext.jar. This dependency is now separately downloaded and added to the
classpath where needed.
* Some API changes caused compilation errors. See ImageCacher and
SpriteTranscoder.
> Building the SDK with Java 7
> ----------------------------
>
> Key: FLEX-48
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-48
> Project: Apache Flex
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Christophe Herreman
> Assignee: Bertrand Delacretaz
> Attachments: java-7.patch
>
>
> I've changed the SDK a bit to be able to build it with Java 7. Everything
> seems to compile, although that is no guarantee that things will actually
> work.
> The main problem is the Batik dependency. The version used by the trunk
> version is 1.6. When building with Java 7, this results in some compiler
> errors for classes in the com.sun.* packages. So I've updated the build
> scripts to use Batik version 1.7 (there is an option to NOT use the Sun
> classes in the build file of that version) and resolved some more compilation
> issues (missing dependency xml-apis-ext.jar, API changes in the dependencies).
> Attached is a patch with the changes. Please try this out if you have a
> moment and let me know if this works for you. These changes are compatible
> with Java 6, so when applying the patch you should still be able to build the
> SDK without changing your Java installation.
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