Re: [Beanshell-users] RE: Some thoughts on future directions for BeanShell

Pat <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.beanshell.devel,gmane.comp.java.beanshell.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 05:22:41PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
> > - Is JDK 1.1 compatibility still important? I think it could 
> > simplify the code a little to not have to maintain it.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that 1.1 compatibility is no longer a big deal.

Definitely not for normal use.  The only issue would be for people doing
embedded systems...  but I'm not really up on what subsets of Java are
supported by what J2ME spec, etc.

In any event, I agree that we could make the current 1.3 branch the base for
any embedded BeanShell development in the future...  (the last version prior to
the class generating code).

Targetting Java 1.3 for 2.0/modern BeanShell makes some sense since it is where
the Proxy interface generator appeared and that is pretty fundamental to
BeanShell now...

What do you think?

BeanShell 1.3-, Java 1.1
BeanShell 2.0+, Java 1.3

Having collections would certainly clean up a lot of code...  and having 1.3
would allow some loadable modules to simply be folded in...  


Pat


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