Before the discussion ended, the consensus seemed to be affirmative that Java 5+ would be used at least server-side.
Without getting into the various forks of that discussion, is something like what I posted for 388 valuable? Should I continue on to other packages (focused primarily on outrigger for this round)? As a reminder, the bulk of the refactor was in correcting (not all, but some) compiler warnings and updating the classes to use Java 5 idioms (generics, for-each, etc.). The updates to the patch that I made were as follows: 1) Added suppressed warnings in points where the "unused" method was used by Serialization or reflection. 2) Fixed error in initial patch (had nixed readNoData, now it's back; screwed up on context, because it was a Serialization-read, not a space-read). 3) Added WeakHashSet class. The majority of WeakHashMap usage in Outrigger used only the keyset. The WeakHashSet class is a small wrapper of WeakHashMap that clarifies the intent a little (by implementing Set). I isolated this change somewhat (submitting a patch with and without), in case there were any objections. jamesG
