+1to move to jdk 1.5. thanks, Amila.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:01 AM, 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] > > > To > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Amila Suriarachchi, WSO2 Inc.
