Re: JDK 1.5 support?

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 13:51, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone run the JDK 1.5 beta against Classpath using japitools?  I
> > know its not production but it may be interesting to see what the
> > differences are.  The licensing is different on the beta, so I'm wary
> > about trying this myself.
> 
> I doubt japitools would swallow it, as the class file format has changed 
> in 1.5 :) But the underlying tols (JADE, afaik) might have been updated 
> to deal with 1.5-ish classes, so you *may* be able to puzzle together a 
> version of japitools that can deal with 1.5.
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
I sort of guessed along those lines as I wrote this ;-)
Once 1.5 becomes stable, I may have a look into this.  Sun's licensing
for betas states that only experimental use is allowed, and I don't want
to cause any problems with this (the license differs between betas and
release).
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