Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Mark Taylor wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>>
>>> On this topic, what's your current status (/VO world) with respect to
>>> language features? Still sticking with 1.4, or is it time to unleash
>>> some
>>> 1.5?
>>
>> Good question. I have so far stuck to developing against 1.4,
>> partly to stay compatible with starjava is 1.4 but also to make
>> deployment as easy as possible. But some of the 1.5 features would
>> be nice to use (generics mainly). I guess the question is how many
>> people have 1.4 as their primary Java installation (and how many of
>> those would consider it a big deal to upgrade).
>> Don't know the answer.
>>
>> Of other projects: the AstroGrid software runs on 1.4, though 1.5 is
>> recommended (there are things which don't work very well at 1.4).
>> I think they are considering targetting 1.5 but not sure what stage
>> that's at.
>
> Thanks, that makes it sound much as it has been, a little early yet. I
> certainly know a few sites that are still stuck at 1.4, mainly because
> that's what Starlink deployed. We'd also need to persuade RAL to update
> to 1.5 for the nightly builds...
>
> There are some projects that claim to process Java 1.5 bytes codes into
> Java 1.4. If generics are really calling to you, they might help. See:
>
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp02277.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01JavaTheoryAnd
>
>
>> Aladin only fairly recently made the move to 1.4 from 1.1(!).
>
> Now that is a shock.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter.
http://dev.starlink.ac.uk/build/RHEL-WS3-3_i386/module-starjava15.html
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Steve.
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