[DrJava] Re: New JSR 14.

[Charles R. <cr...@ri...>]

   Wow, thanks for the heads-up.  Yes, we need to update DrJava to work 
with this new version (as painful as it probably will be)...  The 
problem is that Sun never distributes the old versions of JSR-14, so any 
new users wishing to use generics in DrJava are *currently* out of luck.

   As an interesting side note, JSR-14 v2.0 is also JSR-201, which 
includes enumerations, autoboxing, enhanced for loops, and static 
imports.  As much as I dread having to support four different versions 
of JSR-14 with different JVM versions, I'm looking forward to trying 
these new features out.  :)

Charlie


Jim Van Fleet wrote:
> There was a new JSR 14 released this past week, and the internals are
> totally different.  java and javac are now scripts, operating on a
> "util-looking" (gjc-rt.jar) jar file.
> 
> Are there any plans to update DrJava with this?   If so, how?  I haven't
> tried just throwing the new jar into the fire, as it were, because I don't
> think some of the functionality in that script would be reflected in just
> a jar invocation.
> 
> Jim
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