Hi,
Andreas Lehmkühler wrote:
Hi,
what about upgrading to Java 5 with the upcoming 1.0 version?
I guess we have a lazy consensus on upgrading pdfbox to use java 5 features and
therefore I filed an issue on jira [1].
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
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-572
