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[eclipselink-dev] Attention: Changes to build planned for next wee. WAS: (Re: Proposed changes to automated build - use of JDK 6)

Hello all,

Since no one responded to to this email earlier, it seems that nobody cares about a compiler change from JDK 1.5 to Jdk 1.6 (specifying a targeted vm of 1.5). However, I wanted to give fair warning anyway.

I currently testing out this change, and am planning on making it permanent next Wednesday (8/24). This change will impact all branches nightly and continuous builds, but Eclipse based builds not at all.

If you have any concerns let me know.

-Eric

Mike Norman wrote:
As part of my work for bug 239832 <https://bugs.eclipse.org/239832> to add DBWS to the automated build, I discovered that the EclipseLink build environment is missing some things that were previously available in ADE. The Ant extension library 'ant-contrib' has a custom task <PropertyRegex> that
performs regular-expression manipulations on Ant ${properties}.

However, Product Management does not want our build process to depend upon custom Ant tasks written by a third-party or ourselves. I tried a number of of ways to solve the problem and discussed this with Eric and it turns out that he has a related issue - the built-in Ant logger/listener is not producing the output Eric requires for the automated build notifications. A custom Ant
logger task would solve this, but ...

After some investigation, we discovered that JDK 6 has a built-in Javascript interpreter: no third-party or custom code is required. When used in conjunction with Ant's <scriptdef> task, I was able to successfully build and test DBWS, and Eric will be able to create a scripted solution
to his logger/listener problem.

All <javac> targets would specify that Java5 bytecodes are to be produced, so we are not
'abandoning' existing Java5 customers.

We have discussed this with Peter and he sees no problems with this ... any issues/questions from
the rest of the Dev community?

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