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RE: [eclipse-dev] Support for jdk 1.5

But will it be available in 3.0 and, if so, what milestone?
Thanks.

Steve Buroff 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philippe P Mulet
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 5:25 PM
> To: eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [eclipse-dev] Support for jdk 1.5
> 
> 
> Markku,
> 
> The PR you mention does actually contain words from developpers:
> see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36938#c28
> 
> 
> ------- Additional Comment #28 From Philippe Mulet 2004-02-14 
> 07:47 -------
> Just to give you an update. We are working on the 1.5 
> support, but we are
> not
> only implementing a compiler, but all integrated tools for it 
> as well. We
> may
> disclose some of the intermediate states, but we don't want 
> to challenge
> 3.0.
> You may expect some patches to be available, once we reach some stable
> points,
> and this will be merged into the main development stream only then.
> When applying these patches, you will enable some 1.5 
> features, and any
> feedback on these will be important to us.
> 
> So far, we currently have a 1.5 parser available, but we need 
> to bring it
> up to
> speed with respect to syntax recovery requirements for all our tooling
> (code
> assist, code select, etc...). This is quite a bit of work, 
> but we should be
> 
> able to make some good progress, given we are closing on our 
> 3.0 feature
> list
> on other fronts.
> 
> 
> ------- Additional Comment #29 From Philippe Mulet 2004-02-14 
> 08:03 -------
> We will try to have our JDT Core API reflect 1.5 evolutions by the 3.0
> release.
> This will mostly impact the DOM AST, the JavaModel, code 
> assist and search.
> 
> Gradually, implementations will be backing up these new APIs, 
> but this will
> 
> enable some tool makers to start investigating 1.5 support in 
> parallel to
> us
> implementing our layer.
> 
> 
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> Hi,
> 
> There is lot of persons eager to get info about schedule of jdk 1.5
> support.
> There is plenty of people to signing up for: Bug 36938 Add 
> early support
> for J2SE 1.5 features , for info,
> but no reply for developers.
> 
> This is like old IBM times using VAJ, when support for newer 
> jdk's come
> at least one jdk version behind.
> 
> We are running out of time for this support of jdk 1.5, 
> because projects
> starting now are intended to run jdk 1.5!
> 
> So please give us a sign to hold on eclipse or change to  ide's to
> support generics, autoboxing  and other new stuff.
> 
> Rgds,
> 
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> Markku Saarela
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