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Jeremias Maerki wrote:

> No reactions so far. Interesting. Anyway, based on the user poll, my
> opinion is to go for Java 1.4 for the moment and reevaluate Java 1.5
> next summer. I mean I'd love to use generics and java.util.concurrent
> but I think it is just a bit too soon to drop 1.4.

I agree. I don't want Java 1.4 dropped yet because of the type of 
environments where FOP will typically be used, i.e. Batch Processing 
environments which are often old mainframes, e.g. AS/400, or other older 
and less popular Unix flavours. Most of these older environments simply 
cannot be upgraded to newer JDKs and by excluding them we are making 
people either stay on older releases of FOP or losing potential users. 
Neither scenario sits well with me, and I fail to see the real benefit 
that generics gives us. I can still implement new functionality without 
them, no?

<snip/>

Chris



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