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Emmanuel Lecharny schrieb:
> Hi guys,
>
> we are currently thinking of moving from java 1.4 to java 5. The 
> question is : "When ?"
For me the question is: "Why?" :-)
There are some very good reasons for switching to 5. I'd just like to 
know which ones are the key motivators.
If it is for the syntactic sugar and generics, that's fine with me. 
Retrotranslator works reasonably well for those cases, just in case one 
really needs a 1.4 compatible version. The library is a different kind 
of beast, though, and once there is a dependency on a large number of 
new library features, there's no way back.

So, I'd prefer...

[x] Let's use java 5 right now in 1.1 version (which is currently the 
trunk), and this will become the 1.5 release

... with the additional caveat, to try to preserve library 
backwards-compatibility as long as possible.

Joerg Henne