Re: [Bodington-developers] Bod 2.8 won't compile on JDK 1.5

[Alexis O'C. <ale...@ou...>]

Alexis O'Connor wrote:
> Alistair Young wrote:
>> got a problem from the 2.8 release
>>
>> org.bodington.logbook.server.LogBookSessionImpl::getEntriesInOrder()
>> ...
>> Enumeration enum = ...
>> ...
>>
>> enum is a reserved word in 1.5 so bod won't compile under 1.5 any more
>>
>> Alistair
>>
>>
> 
> Yep, some time ago I altered all the variables named 'enum' to 'enumeration' 
> (~800!). These have started to creep back in - who, I don't know as I'm not 
> clever enough to use the 'CVS annotate' function in Eclipse ;-). Unless anyone 
> has a better idea, renaming them according to the above is probably as good a 
> strategy as any.
> 
> Alexis
> 

(Apologies for replying to my own e-mail).

As a related aside, I think that it's an unwritten rule that we should probably 
still be compiling against a v1.4.2 JDK with source and class compliance set to 
version 1.4. This way ("Sakai style"!) one can still *run* on JDK 1.5 / Tomcat 
5.5 for performance reasons, whilst still keeping an eye on backwards compatability.

Alexis