Hi Kevin, > So, where is the value add for compiling with JDK6? I did give a chance to change the topic in this vigorous debate of whether we need more transparency of enhancement than what we have now :)
For JDK6 support, I thought it is something that you will love to have for OpenJPA. It gives you access to the compiler. That may help to bolster interface based domain model support in OpenJPA or several places it uses Proxy classes. The other area to look into is whether we can derive more value from new JDBC 4 features. But we are forking the thread... Kevin Sutter wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Pinaki Poddar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> However, given that we have some reasonably transparent (imo) mechanics >> already in place, if advanced expertise of bytecode/classloading is >> focused >> elsewhere (say, the longstanding issue of making OpenJPA compile with >> JDK6 >> -- OPENJPA-5) -- it perhaps will add more value. > > > Interesting comment. So, where is the value add for compiling with JDK6? > Most of our users are using the binary drops of OpenJPA. Having OpenJPA > built with JDK5 works just fine for this case. And, for the development > people that attempt to build OpenJPA, having multiple versions of the JDK > available seems to be very common place. I, myself, have at least half > dozen different versions of the IBM and Sun JDKs available in my > development > environment. > > Are there specific features or enhancements that come about from moving to > JDK 6 for our build environment? From what I know, there are no glaring > performance improvements like we experienced when moving from JDK4 to > JDK5. > I don't disagree that it would be nice to be buildable with JDK 6, but > there > doesn't seem to be a huge advantage for pushing for this feature. > > Comments are welcome. :-) > Kevin > > >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://n2.nabble.com/-jira--Created%3A-%28OPENJPA-952%29-Utilize-Sun-JDK%27s-Attach-API-to-dynamically-load-the-OpenJPA-enhancer-agent-tp2417786p2423343.html >> Sent from the OpenJPA Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/-jira--Created%3A-%28OPENJPA-952%29-Utilize-Sun-JDK%27s-Attach-API-to-dynamically-load-the-OpenJPA-enhancer-agent-tp2417786p2424377.html Sent from the OpenJPA Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
