On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:46:29AM -0400, Etienne Gagnon wrote: > Tim Ellison wrote: > > Gary Clark wrote: > >>3) Do any of the current VMs support the 1.5 features? Off the top of my > >>head I don't recall if anything changed within the VM to support them. > > > > I'll let Etienne, Archie, Dalibor, et al describe their status wrt Java > > 1.5 support. The IBM VM can switch to 1.5 support trivially but we are > > limiting it to 1.4 until there is reasonable coverage in the open source > > VMs. >
We'll have 1.5 support out of the box for the next Kaffe release. Guilhem has checked in the code, so I just need to find some time to make the build system work with a generified glibj.zip, and see if we are missing some changes from the GNU Classpath 1.5 VM interface. We need it for ant on the gump, since it's stuck trying to build code for a 1.5 VM without having some of the classes & enums. There is a bug report for it on the ant bugzilla, but it gets boring to have to patch ant to work around the VM version detection code. It is simpler to just give it what it wants, a 1.5-ish VM. ;) In other words, Gump is great for discovering that sort of issues. cheers, dalibor topic > One of my former students succeeded to run SableVM with the generic > branch of GNU Classpath over the holidays, by only implementing one or > two additional native methods in SableVM (the code should be in his > sandbox somewhere). As far as I know, the type erasure stuff was chosen > by Sun as to minimize the impact of generics on the virtual machine. > So, I don't expect the switch to 1.5 to be something big. But, first, > it would be nice to get SableVM to work with current Harmony... So, I'm > working on that for the time being. > > Etienne > > -- > Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://www.info2.uqam.ca/~egagnon/ > SableVM: http://www.sablevm.org/ > SableCC: http://www.sablecc.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
