Re: Pre-processing during build

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 06:15:47 -0400, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> wrote:
> On 17 June 2015 at 03:07, Mark Rotteveel <mark(at)lawinegevaar(dot)nl> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:02:40 +0300, Vladimir Sitnikov
>> <sitnikov(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > 2015-06-16 22:30 GMT+03:00 Markus KARG <markus(at)headcrashing(dot)eu>:
>> >> The answer is pretty simple: Try it out. :-)
>> >>
>> >> Just compile a JRE 8 class down to byte code level 6 and load it on
>> Java
>> >> level 7. That's what I proposed. Nothing else. It really bet will
work
>> >> unless you try to INSTANTIATE JRE-only classes, but it should LOAD.
>> >> And
>> >> nothing more we need.
>> >
>> > Markus, can you please be more explicit in your suggestion?
>> >
>> > I did try a simple "Hello, world" and it does not run in stock JDKs
of
>> > MacOS: https://gist.github.com/vlsi/aeeb4a61d9c2b67ad213
>> > Even if you manage to make that fly, that would be built on sand.
>>
>> Good example: it demonstrates at least that using reflection (eg
>> getDeclaredMethods; or in this case privateGetDeclaredMethods) will
lead
>> to
>> a NoClassDefFoundError.
>>
>>
> I'm not sure this is a great example as Optional itself is a java 8
> construct.

Yes, and so is java.sql.SQLType. So if this doesn't work for Optional, it
also won't work for SQLType.

> Either way Spring is able to do this, as are others?

Spring uses a lot of reflection, proxies, byte code generation, etc to get
things done. I am not sure if you want to go that way.

Mark