OK-- I've edited the wiki page to indicate that any users wishing to try retrotranslator should read this thread first (with a link to it on nabble).
-Chris -----Original Message----- From: Roelofsen, Roman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:37 PM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Java 1.4 I tried. Retrotranslater maps thinks like - Annotation API - StringBuilder -> StringBuffer But NOT - java.util.Properties.loadFromXML - and hundreds of other methods - and hundreds of new classes I got it working by using Apache Harmony to override/add the missing classes etc. In addition, the result was based on OSGi. Several CXF bundles, a "service" bundle, etc. I talked about this at the latest OSGi conference in Munich. You can download the presentation here: http://www2.osgi.org/wiki/uploads/Conference/OSGiCommunity-Roelofsen.pdf But I would not consider the result "production ready". Things can easily break. Cheers, Roman > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Kulp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 July 2007 17:23 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Java 1.4 > > > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 08:49, Roelofsen, Roman wrote: > > With retrotranslator you only solve language problems like > > > > - generics > > - annotations > > - etc > > > > But CXF also uses new classes introduced in Java5, existing classes > > got new methods, etc. So the bigger problem is running CXF with a > > Java4 library. You could use a project like Apache Harmony to fill > > this gap. But to make the result production ready is a lot of work. > > > retrotranslator also maps many of the new methods and classes into > classes in the retrotranslator-runtime jar. Has anyone > actually tried > it with the CXF bundle yet? > > Dan > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Roman > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Christopher Moesel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: 17 July 2007 13:44 > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: RE: Java 1.4 > > > > > > > > > Lukas, > > > > > > You may be able to use CXF with the help of Retrotranslator. > > > This is an > > > open source project that translates 1.5 byte code to > > > 1.4-compatible byte > > > code. More info here: > > > > > > http://retrotranslator.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > -Chris > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Willem Jiang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:57 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: Java 1.4 > > > > > > > > > CXF works on JDK 1.5. We do not support JDK 1.4 yet. > > > > > > Lukas Zapletal wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > will CXF work under JRE 1.4? It seems the source code isuses 5.0 > > > > syntax... > > -- > J. Daniel Kulp > Principal Engineer > IONA > P: 781-902-8727 C: 508-380-7194 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dankulp.com/blog >
