I am wildly in favor of converting to Java 5. Y.
Life is good! 2009/11/26 Andreas Lehmkühler <[email protected]> > Hi, > > what about upgrading to Java 5 with the upcoming 1.0 version? > > We haven't talked much about that, but I think we should. Jukka tried to > start a discussion on [1], but no one jumped in. A long time ago (august > 2008) there was already some discussion [2] and Jeremias mentioned that he > still has to use java 1.4. because of a customer who isn't able to upgrade > his environment. > > I think everybody might know the advantages of upgrading to Java 5 > > - Java 1.4 reached EOL in october 2008 > - all those new java features like autoboxing, generics etc. > - third party libs used by pdfbox will upgrade/have upgraded to java 5 > (e.g. lucene) > - there are some contributions to pdfbox using java 5 stuff, which have to > be converted before we can add them to the source > - ... > > So, what do you think about that? Jeremias do you still rely on java 1.4 > compliance, perhaps someone else? > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/aqvxuuz3yqx5327x > [2] http://markmail.org/thread/h4m5nw4bmz2nrciq >
