Hi!

I use biojava for the SPICE - protein sequence and structure browser.

http://www.efamily.org.uk/software/dasclients/spice/

This application is launched from within a browser using Java Web Start.
Since many people still are using java 1.4 on their machines I would not
want to force them to upgrade and hence I would prefer biojava to stay
with 1.4 still for a while.

Cheers,
Andreas



On 6 Oct 2005, at 06:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello -

No one seemed to object to the idea of officially adopting java 1.5 for
the biojava-live branch.

This would mean ...

biojava-live would require java1.5
generics, unboxing and other language features added in 1.5 will start to
creep into the codebase.
all 'official' and 'preview' releases after biojava1.4 will require JDK1.5
(Java 5).

If you plan to use new versions of biojava on a machine for which there is
or will be no JDK1.5 then you should protest now!

- Mark

Mark Schreiber
Principal Scientist (Bioinformatics)

Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD)
10 Biopolis Road
#05-01 Chromos
Singapore 138670
www.nitd.novartis.com

phone +65 6722 2973
fax  +65 6722 2910

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