> Kevin,
>
> Not that it's entirely a relevant question, but will the embedded space ever
> more forward again? At Eclipse we'd argue: if the community cared enough,
> they'd produce a Foundation 1.2 for Java 5.0. It can't be that hard, but I
> suppose Sun leaves the community in a straight jacket. This seems an ideal
> approach for making Java go extinct in the embedded space. Basing an
> important design decision around this terribly sad story, seems terribly
> sad. And of course the target is likely to move by the time the arrow comes
> close...
>
> You recall there was talk about cross compiling 5.0 code to 1.4? There is a
> "secret flag" already, but I think that goes against the rules as well. I'm
> not sure the purpose for such rules. It seems all very wrong...
>
> Regards,
> Ed
>
>
> Kevin McGuire wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a little confused about what JDK level we said we'd use for e4 work.
>
> In the former e4-incubator mail list [1] we said, "We'll discuss at the
> summit". In the summit notes I see lots of discussion [2] but no
> conclusion. I was not in that session, so perhaps there was a conclusion
> that I missed/was missed in the notes?
>
> In doing the recent CSS work I set the dependency as JDK1.5 because that's
> what I saw in the following projects:
> org.eclipse.e4.ui.services
> org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench
>
> Many would like 1.5 for various reasons (myself included), but as in the
> email below, those in the embedded space would naturally like something more
> like Foundation 1.1.
>
> We need a definitive answer to avoid costly reworking of code to a lower JDK
> level.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
> [1]
>
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse-incubator-e4-dev/msg00234.html
> [2]
http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Architectural_Foundations see "Summit Notes
> for Java 5/supported platforms"
>
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>
> I have been trying to get the existing code working with the eRCP
> runtime. The good news is after a few hours of hacking and commenting
> I was able to get it working. I am now wondering what are the platform
> targets for the CSS engine. We can possibly help with the existing
> code base to complete it and make it compatible with CDC FP 1.1
> (better yet CLCD 1.1 ) also add eSWT and eJface support. Are those
> things in the interest and target of the css related work?
> --
> Gorkem
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