[Pljava-dev] Java SE 6 support

Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Not without giving up support for 1.4. What's the status of GCJ and 1.5 today? Anyone knows?
>
> Alternatively, we could branch off a specific branch for old stuff.
>
Hello Thomas,
you have promised to build pljava binaries for postgresql 8.2, any
chance to do it in near future ? What about support for java 6 ? I'm not
able to upgrade my postgresql server until pljava will be ready for 8.2.
Thanks in advance for an answer.

Regards,
ML

> Kind Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
>
>
> Peter Henderson wrote:
>> Hi List.
>>
>> I've just tried to compile pljava with Sun's Java SE 6.
>> Not a pretty sight.
>>
>> Seems there are a number of extra methods in JDBC Connection,Statement
>> APIs which need coding.
>>
>> Has anyone already made any progress with this yet?
>>
>> I am wondering if it is even possible to support Java 6 and remain
>> backwards compatible, as the latest API has functions which use generics.
>>
>> <T> T unwrap(Class<T> iface)
>>
>> No idea if it's possible to support this for older Java versions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Peter Henderson.