Re: [platform-dev] J2SE 1.4 Execution Environment

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Typically we don't change the minimum execution
environment unless we have a need for it. However much of the platform
has already moved to Java 5 minimum so I think that would be quite reasonable
here.

John

Joseph D Carroll Jr <jdsalingerjr@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject	[platform-dev] J2SE 1.4 Execution Environment

Would anyone happen to know why the platform-debug plugins
have an execution environment of J2SE 1.4?  I am beginning work on
porting the Console view to a pure e4 MPart and ran into some compile errors
relating to the J2SE 1.4 requirement.  I can work around these issues,
however since I am doing some work here anyways, I wasn't sure if this
was something that should be updated.  (say to 1.5 or 1.6) 

Unless I am missing something (which I might be) there
are relatively few code changes necessary to update the execution environment.
 All of the changes I found deal with simple casting errors (several
of Boolean val = (Boolean) someString;).  IIRC, in all, the changes
affected ~10 total lines of code.

Is this something that should be looked into?

Thanks,

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