[Yanel-dev] why Java 1.4 and not Java 5?

[Michael Wechner]

Evaldas Taroza wrote:

> I have several JVMs on my computer. Finally I was able to make my 
> Yanel development purely Java 1.4.
> 1. In Eclpise I configured to use 1.4 compiler and 1.4 code compliance
> 2. I installed Tomcat 5.5.26 + Tomcat Java 1.4 compatibility patch 
> (because Tomcat 5.5.26 is packaged for Java 5.0 by default)


great, will add this to the documentation

>
> I did that, and now I have to deal with problems of Java 1.4 that in 
> Java 5 are already solved. For instance I had some issues with inner 
> classes.


ok

>
> Why not making Yanel Java 1.5+ compliant? This would also allow to 
> leverage much of the new language features like annotations, generics. 
> Moreover the development goes faster with Java 1.5.


i agree, but we need to give people some time to do this change. So I 
would suggest the following. First of all let's ask if everyone agrees 
to switch to Java 1.5 and then after hopefully a successful positive 
vote we will develop another month with Java 1.4 and then will switch to 
Java 1.5 whereas we need to tell people about this switch in a month.

Makes sense?

Cheers

Michi

>
> Evaldas
>


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