+1 for Axis2 to java 1.5
--- Andreas Veithen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 27 Feb 2008, at 05:15, Deepal Jayasinghe wrote: > > > 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. > > Deepal, > > Moving to Java 1.5 doesn't necessarily mean to > abandon support for > Java 1.4. I am currently working on a project for a > company that still > uses Java 1.4 (and I think there are lots of them). > We needed a > library to generate MS Project files, but the only > one we could find > was from an Open Source project that migrated to > Java 1.5 a few > releases ago. The code in this library makes use of > generics and has a > dependency on JAXB 2. What we did was to use > retrotranslator > (http://retrotranslator.sourceforge.net/ > ) to translate the library as well as its > dependencies (including JAXB > 2) back to Java 1.4. The tool operates at bytecode > level and supports > all Java 5 constructs (generics, enums, annotations, > etc.). It also > emulates the most important parts of the Java API. > We were able to use > the library to generate MS Project XML files on a > Java 1.4 VM without > any problems, meaning that retrotranslator > successfully backported the > JAXB 2 RI to Java 1.4! There is also a plugin > (retrotranslator-maven- > plugin) that allows to generate Java 1.4 artifacts > during Maven > builds. Maybe this could be an option for Axis2? > > Regards, > > Andreas > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
