I'd like to see a concrete proposal for what Java 5 features we should use
before we decide to cutover.

-- Arthur

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Jeremy Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It would be good to investigate what we can do to improve the API
> given that we can use Java 5 features such as generics. How about a
> branch for that so that we can be as ready as possible when/if Axis2
> make the switch.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
> On 27/02/2008, Lawrence Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > +1
> >
> >  Woden has also discussed a move to Java 5 and the dev team was in
> favour
> >  of this move. As Axis2 depends on Woden we cannot consider this move
> >  unless Axis2 also moves.
> >
> >  Lawrence
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Deepal Jayasinghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >  02/26/2008 11:15 PM
> >  Please respond to
> >  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
> >  To
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> >  cc
> >
> >  Subject
> >  [Axis2] Moving Axis2 code base into JDK 1.5
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Hi all ,
> >
> >  As you might remember few months back Glen asked the list about moving
> >  to JDK 1.5 and I think we got very positive feedback. So I thought of
> >  asking again and change the code to work with JDK 1.5 . The main reason
> >  behind sending this mail is due the dependency we have for annogen. As
> I
> >  can see that project is dead one and there is no development happening
> >  so I do not think it is a good idea to depend on such a project. In the
> >  meantime we have few issues with annogen as well ,first  inner class
> >  problem (I have locally fixed that both in Axis2 and Annogen will
> commit
> >  soon) , second is the final class problem. I request a release from
> >  annogen after the changes that Dims did , but we did not get any reply
> >  so far.
> >
> >  We all know that we get better annotation support from JDK 1.5 so if we
> >  move to JDK 1.5 we can get rid of the annogen dependency and we can
> just
> >  use JDK for annotation processing.  Other problem is generic support ,
> >  if we move to JDK 1.5 we can have generic support in our POJOs.  In
> >  addition to POJO we can get better concurrent support in JDK 1.5 as
> well.
> >
> >  So if we move to JDK 1.5 we can get better support , and I do not think
> >  any advantage of staying in 1.4 . If some user want to use Axis2 in JDK
> >  1.4 they can happily use Axis2 1.3 , which is very stable version and
> >  working fine in 1.4 and 1.5.
> >
> >  If any user or developers have any concern on moving to JDK 1.5 please
> >  come forward and reply to this mail that will be very helpful for all
> of
> >  us.
> >
> >  Here is my +1 for moving to JDK 1.5 to and release Axis2 1.4 in JDK 1.5
> >
> >  Thank you,
> >  Deepal
> >
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