Dims-- Believe it or not, I think it's worth having the discussion over having WSM support both JDK 1.4 and 5.0. :)
Certainly, there are a lot of people that would like to author annotated web services and run them on a 1.4 JDK. Heard that a few times at JavaOne... From the sound of it, you're suggesting using the Java 5 annotations via ASM on the 1.4 JDK. Is that right? Is it worth considering using Javadoc annotations like: /** @jws:WebService */ etc? I've got a side-project in my sandbox (beehive/sandbox/ekoneil) that is heading in a direction that would make either much. Maybe we could look at combining our code bases? Could you send code (or a pointer) for the prototype you've got? Eddie On 7/3/05, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > Am sure we have beaten this to death before. I had a long discussion > with Daryoush probably on friday and poked around a bit with > Retroweaver/ASM/CGLIB/Annogen/JAM/backport175 etc.. Here's the bottom > line (i have code in my sandbox to prove it). > > - We can use Eclipse JDT to compile code with Annotations (yes, target > vm = 1.5) under JDK1.4 > - Code thus compiled can be loaded in 1.4 VM (with a hack to fix > version, i have a CompilingClassLoader that compiles and loads > examples.EchoService i found in the JSR download) > - Have code (using ASM) that can read annotations from these classes > under both 1.4 and 1.5 > > So bottom line: As long as the code does not use any other 1.5 feature > other than annotations, we can work with it. I can send someone the > code if they are interested. > > Yes, you have told me things like "rest of beehive needs 1.5, so let's > do the same for wsm". Please remember wsm can still exist without > controls and there is VERY little dependency on controls which can be > refactored out. > > Based on this, Can we please re-open the debate on supporting 1.4 for > WSM *ONLY* (need to rewrite code that uses generics in WSM module). To > state the obvious, Am looking for a drop-in solution for Apache Axis > to enable JSR 181 under JDK1.4. > > Thanks, > dims > > -- > Davanum Srinivas -http://blogs.cocoondev.org/dims/ >
