Re: [ecf-dev] Changing DocShare requirements to Java 1.5 and up - any ob

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Jan S. Rellermeyer wrote:
> I know generics very well. But as far as I know, generics are not using any
> specific new bytecode instructions but are "only" type checking and compiler
> preprocessing. Hence, it should be absolutely possible to have a compiler
> supporting generics but creating bytecode which is backward compatible with
> J2SE and CDC.
>
>   
The standard javac has undocumented support for this, at least for the 
1.4 target. If you know what you are doing, you can use javac -source 
1.5 -target jsr14 ...

The reason they don't document it is because there is no legal Java 
Language Specification that describes the valid source.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren