Using Generics, java-util-concurrent & annotations really is a no brainer with
retrotranslator; the only real downside I can see is that it means we'll have
1.4 and 1.5 versions of jars. I guess in the grand scheme of things its not the
end of the world.
I"ll post an update when I've got the ma
I had a quick look at retrotranslator today. Generics and some other
language 5.0 features were, as some of you may know, originally
developed on a 1.4 JVM. So in principal this is a cool idea and at one
point the javac engineer suggested we provide the target 1.4 option. I
would probably draw
I would love to start using Java 5 as soon as possible. I have been
using the backport-util-concurrent package for a while in xbean and
the Java 5 interfaces are really nice to use. Above all other
features, I would love to have generics support in geronimo.
Generics give me much more da
How does this affect debugging?
Regards,
Alan
On 1/3/2006 8:39 AM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
That sounds pretty interesting -- does it really fully handle
annotations? I thought some of those could be inspected at runtime
and I'm not sure how that could be supported in 1.4, but I really
don't know
That sounds pretty interesting -- does it really fully handle
annotations? I thought some of those could be inspected at runtime
and I'm not sure how that could be supported in 1.4, but I really
don't know that much about it.
On a similar note, it would be great if someone could look into why
Day
First a quick bit of background on why Retrotranslator rocks...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2005/12/29.html#a546
Retrotranslator can take any Java 5 bytecode using generics,
annotations, auto-boxing, varargs & java.util.concurrent utilities
and generate regular 1.4 bytecode that runs jus
