Re: [Ikvm-developers] Support for JDK 1.5 features

[Terry L. <tla...@gm...>]

I haven't had direct experience with it, but it seems to me that if you are=
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careful you could probably combine Retroweaver with ikvm to obtain the=20
desired result. I'm not saying that it would be pretty, but I don't see why=
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it wouldn't work.

Terry

On 6/28/05, Matt Munz <mm...@ap...> wrote:
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> IKVM Devs,
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> The email archives suggest that JDK 1.5 support may be far off. [1]
> Classpath does have the generics branch, [2] but I suppose it is too
> incomplete to use, ATM? Two questions:
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> 1) Let's say I have some code today that uses 1.5 features (generics).
> What is my best route to making that code available to .Net
> applications, today? [3]
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> 2) Assuming that this is more difficult than, say, IKVMC'ing
> 1.4-compatible bytecode, when may I expect this state of affairs to
> change (for the better)? Any guess as to when preliminary 1.5 support
> will be available?
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> As a follow-on to #2, what are the major obstacles that stand in the
> way of 1.5-compatibility for IKVM, and how big are they? While, for the
> moment, the current level of 1.4-compatibility is sufficient for me, I
> will almost certainly need to handle 1.5 code in the future...
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> [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3D10038246
> [2]
> http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathDecisionsPage#head-273
> 8e96cc64a3b429eb50e2b0ce8ae732b70b1f9
> [3] Any solutions are welcome. I've read about some hacks for
> converting bytecode from 1.5 to 1.4. Based on your experience, what's
> the best approach?
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> - Matt Munz
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