[MOBY-dev] Code updates in jMOBY

[Paul Gordon]

As far as I can see, jikes does not support Java 1.5 language features 
yet.  And there hasn't been a new release of jikes for almost 2 years now.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1210781&group_id=128803&atid=712760

You can compile with the Java 1.5 runtime library, but you cannot 
compile features introduced in Java1.5 such as Generics, autoboxing, 
enumerated types, enhanced for loops, etc...  Looks like you'll have to 
stick to javac for now.  It takes 22 seconds for me to compile everything.


Cheers,

Paul
> Hi Martin,
>
> Sure, I can have a look at why jikes craps out...
>
> BTW, yes, I did make some minor code changes in classes directly in 
> org.biomoby.shared and org.biomoby.client, primarily because of package 
> creep.  The functionality should not really be affected, if it is, let 
> me know.  For example the formatFault you mentioned is replaced by 3 
> lines that do essentially the same thing.
>
> By package creep, I mean that in order to compile core MOBY classes into 
> my non-MOBY cvs projects, I don't want to have to include lots of extra 
> jars (I'm writing applets, which have severe memory restrictions).  For 
> example, I moved JDOM specific code from Utils to JDOMUtils, and changed 
> all references to those methods (very few actually) in CVS.  Same thing 
> with the tulsoft libraries.  I think it's a generally good idea to limit 
> the number external dependencies in the core shared classes, no?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>   
>> . Paul,
>>    One more remark regarding jikes: Perhaps I am not using correct
>> arguments for jikes (like -source 1.5). But it would need some time to
>> investigate what arguments to use, and how to put them into jMoby
>> build.xml. The time I am reluctant to spend just now. Perhaps you can
>> consider to investigate - after all these were your changes :-)
>>
>>    Thanks,
>>    Martin
>>
>>   
>>     
>
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