From: thomas at tada.se (Thomas Hallgren)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:20:31 +0100
Subject: [Pljava-dev] Java SE 6 support
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Not without giving up support for 1.4. What's the status of GCJ and 1.5 today? Anyone knows?

Alternatively, we could branch off a specific branch for old stuff.

Kind Regards,
Thomas Hallgren


Peter Henderson wrote:
> Hi List.
> 
> I've just tried to compile pljava with Sun's Java SE 6.
> Not a pretty sight.
> 
> Seems there are a number of extra methods in JDBC Connection,Statement 
> APIs which need coding.
> 
> Has anyone already made any progress with this yet?
> 
> I am wondering if it is even possible to support Java 6 and remain 
> backwards compatible, as the latest API has functions which use generics.
> 
> <T> T unwrap(Class<T> iface)
> 
> No idea if it's possible to support this for older Java versions.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Peter Henderson.