[java] Re: which Java version?

[Gordon Sim <gs...@redhat.com>]

I agree we should make a firm decision and either enforce 1.4 or fully 
exploit 1.5. Originally the client was developed with a view to 
supporting 1.4 - I *believe* that it may now have one or two small 
dependencies on 1.5 though I can't be sure that I remember correctly.

Steve Vinoski wrote:
> Hi Carl, I feel like we need to nail this down firmer than that. If we 
> want to support clients at 1.4, for example, then that's a stake in the 
> ground that has to be enforced by all qpid developers as it has a 
> variety of implications on the implementation. We'd have to make sure 
> that any parts of the code required for clients always remained at 1.4 
> and used only 1.4-compatible versions of underlying libraries, which 
> implies that the qpid common code all has to be 1.4 as well.
> 
> Personally, I think we should just say 1.5 across the board.
> 
> --steve
> 
> On Sep 8, 2006, at 6:27 PM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
> 
>>
>> Java 1.5 or 1.6 for broker.
>>
>> For clients 1.4 might be good to also support.
>>
>> Carl.
>>
>> Steve Vinoski wrote:
>>> Does Qpid mandate Java 5? The reason I ask is that I had some code 
>>> checking turned on in my maven work and saw a ton of warnings about 
>>> unchecked calls to collections classes. If we mandate 1.5, should we 
>>> turn on such checking so we can make the code cleaner?
>>>
>>> --steve
>>
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