+1 to John's comment.

Even in Axis2, we must support jdk 1.4. Since we expect Woden to work
with Axis2, I prefer if we can make Woden also work with JDK 1.4.

At the same time, I assume this was a mistake by Oshani :)

-- Chinthaka

John Kaputin wrote:
> Oshani,
> the WODEN-44 branch contains some Java 5 code. Woden actually supports Java
> 1.4 upwards, so WODEN-44 has compile errors with a 1.42 JRE.  We probably
> need to make this clearer for developers and users - it's stated in the
> User Guide on the website, but I just noticed it's not in the Release
> Notes!
> 
> The decision to make Woden's minimum supported Java level 1.4 was taken
> when the project first kicked off, in early 2005. And to make the API more
> type safe than WSDL4J had been we went with typed Arrays for returned
> collections, rather than Java 5 templating available later with Java 5. It
> may be that we need to collectively re-think this decision before
> stabilizing the API for a 1.0 release, but until that happens we should
> stick with Java 1.4 compliance.  Factors that may influence Java 1.4 vs
> Java 5 support include the likely Java level used by Woden users, including
> Axis2.
> 
> Could you please change the relevant code to Java 1.4 compliant for now?
> 
> thanks,
> John Kaputin
> 
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