Re: BCEL and JDK 1.5 (generics)

Hi Simon,
Thanks for that.
I'll take a look at the code from svn and see what's
involved.
Thanks,
Alan.

--- Simon Kitching <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 00:51 +0100, Alan Spencer
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've just moved to jdk 1.5 with generics and I'm
> sure
> > BCEL can't support them, is this true?
> 
> Yes that's true. BCEL does not support java 1.5. 
> 
> There has been some vague talk about adding this,
> but unless someone
> steps up to write the code it isn't likely to
> happen.
> 
> > I have not tried the svn version yet, will this
> help?
> 
> No.
> 
> If you need generics support I suggest you try ASM
> (asm.objectweb.org).
> Note that the ASM core uses a "visitor" pattern to
> process class files,
> and this is the recommended way to use ASM. However
> it can also build a
> tree representation like BCEL's if you use the
> optional "tree" package.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Simon
> 
> 


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