+1 to upgrade to Java 6. On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all guys, > > I am prototyping the Jackson support as described in CHAIN-76 and > found an elegant solution with ServiceLoader to support, via Jackson, > multiple format support without hardcoding them in the ConfigParser > code but rather loading available parsers at runtime. > > Since [chain2] hasn't been published yet and my prototype would > require an API which is not available on Java5, we have 3 options: > > * using the [discovery] component > > * using a backport[1] component I wrote time ago for java5 (it's ALv2) > > * upgrade to java6 > > The second option sounds to me the more reasonable since uses java > standard APIs and is Java6 compatible, while keeping Java5 backward > compatibility... > > WDYT? > Many thanks in advance, all the best! > -Simo > > [1] http://99soft.github.com/backport-spi/ > > http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ > http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ > http://twitter.com/simonetripodi > http://www.99soft.org/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >
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