RE: JDK 1.5

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:11, Laforge Guillaume wrote:
> Hello Russel,
> 
> Unfortunately, we don't currently test Groovy on JDK 1.5.
> And for the moment, Groovy won't work on that JDK.
> I'm sorry for that.
> There are already a few JIRA issues in the tracker.
> We'll try to find some time for testing/porting the bytecode generation 
> classes to JDK 1.5
> Sorry for the inconvenience.

Guillaume,

As far as I am aware there is no difference between the 1.4 JVM and the
1.5 JVM except that there is a new constant pool type to support some
aspects of debugging generics.  So the code generator for Groovy should
require no change, it should only be the class file parser that requires
amendment and this should be in the JDK classes already -- unless I am
missing something obvious which is always possible.

In fact my compilation of the Groovy system from CVS seems to go fine.  
The maven goals clean:clean, java:prepare-filesystem, java:compile (3
deprecation warnings), java:jar-resources, test:prepare-filesystem and
test:test-resources all execute successfully.

The problem arises in the test:compile goal.  It seems that there is a
difference concerning org.apache.xalan.serialize -- there may be more of
course but I guess it is all in the library configuration of testing
that the problem arises:

test:compile:
    [javac] Compiling 109 source files to 
/home/users/russel/Progs/Other_CVS/groovy/groovy-core/target/test-classes
/home/users/russel/Progs/Other_CVS/groovy/groovy-core/src/test/groovy/xml/TestXmlSupport.java:51:
 package org.apache.xalan.serialize does not exist
import org.apache.xalan.serialize.SerializerToXML;
                                  ^
/home/users/russel/Progs/Other_CVS/groovy/groovy-core/src/test/groovy/xml/TestXmlSupport.java:73:
 cannot find symbol
symbol  : class SerializerToXML
location: class groovy.xml.TestXmlSupport
    protected SerializerToXML createSerializer() {
              ^
/home/users/russel/Progs/Other_CVS/groovy/groovy-core/src/test/groovy/xml/TestXmlSupport.java:63:
 cannot find symbol
symbol  : class SerializerToXML
location: class groovy.xml.TestXmlSupport
        SerializerToXML printer = createSerializer();
        ^
/home/users/russel/Progs/Other_CVS/groovy/groovy-core/src/test/groovy/xml/TestXmlSupport.java:75:
 cannot find symbol
symbol  : class SerializerToXML
location: class groovy.xml.TestXmlSupport
            SerializerToXML ser = new SerializerToXML();
            ^
/home/users/russel/Progs/Other_CVS/groovy/groovy-core/src/test/groovy/xml/TestXmlSupport.java:75:
 cannot find symbol
symbol  : class SerializerToXML
location: class groovy.xml.TestXmlSupport
            SerializerToXML ser = new SerializerToXML();
                                      ^
5 errors

I guess I should just wade in and try and find the difference between
1.4 and 1.5 and provide information for a patch.

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