Trustin Lee wrote:
On 3/11/06, *peter royal* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
On Mar 10, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Trustin Lee wrote:
On 3/11/06, *Alex Karasulu * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
(a) MINA sticks to 1.4 support without messing with byte code and
experiments with retroweaver. She should release a 1.0 and
have a solid
stable API for 1.4 and 1.5 support. At this point I'd like
to see mina
graduate incubation and start a new branch 1.1 which focuses
on JDK1.5
with mina 1.0 as 1.4 fall back. This can occur in about 4-6
months IMHO.
If MINA is released with 1.4 and 1.5 support not using
retrotranslator, we have to maintain two branches for one
release. Do you mean it? I have done it before with other
projects and it was a real overhead.
I think Alex means that Mina 1.0 wouldn't use any 1.5-specific
features.
If so, it's fine. :)
BTW it is very strange that nobody responses to my messages about
retrotranslator (not retroweaver). I want to listen to any
reason behind all other people's opinions with respect to my opinion.
I'm fine with retrotranslater, but only because I wouldn't be
using it in any production systems :) I totally understand the
concerns of people about using bytecode modification in production
systems.
I think it doesn't have much difference from AOP or runtime bytecode
generation which is used by modern frameworks such as Hibernate and
Springframework. So I guess it is just because we didn't experience
retrotranslator enough. Considering its internal translation
mechanism, it is almost 1-to-1 translation via a translation
dictionary, which should be quite safe.
Trustin I'm really uneasy with anything that manipulates byte code or
source code auto-magically. It think making a clean split somewhere is
much easier than wondering WTF happened when crazy things start
happening. Ruling out the retro-xxx facility gives me a level of
confidence that I screwed something up and should keep searching for
something in my code.
Why the push to 1.5 now with retro-xxx can't we release a MINA 1.0
without 1.5?
Alex
