Re: [mdt-ocl.dev] Java Versions

[Laurent Goubet <laurent.goubet@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I may be a little late to react to this, and I'll react more as a 
commiter on M2T/Acceleo than as a commiter on MDT/OCL... But I'll vote 
for OCL to "develop in Java 6 with Java 5 compatibility". Acceleo is 
widely used by clients that are still on Java 5, using Eclipses that go 
sometimes all the way back to 3.4. OCL switching to use Java 6 only 
features would force us (and other users of OCL-dependent tools) to drop 
all compatibility options and switch to the latest Eclipse, latest Java 
versions in order to use the latest Acceleo (and that's something we've 
strived to avoid up till now).

Laurent

On 17/03/2011 20:14, Axel Uhl wrote:
> I'm running my Eclipse on 6 since a long time and only have a 5 
> installed for my OCL work as a target environment. The one thing that 
> finally would become possible with 6 is @Override for interface 
> methods (remember the initial hick-ups with my code cause by me being 
> on 6?). Other than that, performance for 6 is much better, but we 
> benefit from that also by just *executing* on 6; I don't expect major 
> improvements just from *compiling* with 6 instead of 5.
>
> Anyway, I'm all for 6/6 after Indigo.
>
> Best,
> -- Axel
>
> On 3/17/2011 5:50 PM, Ed Willink wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Recent cross-project-dev traffic highlighted a decision to move to Java
> > 6 only for aggregation builds.
> >
> > Checking
> > http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=eclipse#target_environments 
> >
> > it seems that Java 6 is preferred but other things may work.
> >
> > Currently I develop with Java 5 with Java 5 compatibility. I presume
> > this is what other team members do too.
> >
> > Should we move to:
> >
> > Develop with Java 6, with Java 5 compatibility
> > Develop with Java 6, with Java 6 compatibility
> >
> > Should we move now or after Indigo?
> >
> > NB. Our current 5 + 5 gives us compatibility warnings with a JDT
> > reflective debug plugin.
> >
> > I feel that if the platform expects perhaps only Java 6 to be ok, we
> > should be using Java 6 for development.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
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