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1.5 features in 1.4 (was Re: tiger on tiger)


On 13 Apr 2005, at 2:22 PM, John Brewer wrote:

I now find myself in the odd position of teaching lectures to CS1
students (studying Java) based on 1.5 syntax, and having to politley
explain that I can't demo the code on my lovely new ibook, because
Apple doesn't support it  yet.


I am succesfully running Sun's preview extensions (semi-working
directions are in the list archives) of the 1.5 features on 1.4.2.  For
most things (generics being the biggest) it works great.


<blatant plug>

Consider using my Fink packages that I have mentioned before:
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2004/Oct/msg00184.html

</blatant plug>

If these are "semi-working" for some reason, please let me know

The one big hole seems to be the new locking features. 

There is a back port of the java.util.concurrent package available at:

  http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/dcl/util/backport-util-concurrent/

Doug Lea himself suggests using this backport in favour of his original concurrent package. It is a direct replacement of the JSR166 classes (where possible) with only the package names changed.

--
Rohan Lloyd

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