Re: Java 1.4 & Java 5 compatibility

[Kirill Grouchnikov <kirillcool@yahoo.com>]

Hi Emmanuel

As i mentioned before, i don't feel comfortable with doing this - since that would imply that Trident is safe to use with Java 5 as long as TimelineSwingWorker is not used in the app code.

Going forward, Trident core may at any point switch to using Java 6 specific APIs if they are found to be beneficial to the development of the library.

Thanks
Kirill

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From: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
To: dev@trident.kenai.com
Sent: Thu, October 8, 2009 7:19:20 AM
Subject: Re: Java 1.4 & Java 5 compatibility

Kirill Grouchnikov a écrit :

> Thanks for sharing your findings. Java 6 is my default choice for the projects that i'm developing (including Substance and Flamingo). While right now the concurrency APIs used in Trident are found in Java 5 as well - i make no guarantee that this will be the same going forward. I will mention this post in the announcement of the final 1.1 release.

Regarding the Java 5 compatibility, you can safely change the source/target to 1.5 in build.properties. Except for TimelineSwingWorker the API will work fine on Java 5.

Emmanuel Bourg