Shibboleth Developers

[Tom Scavo <>]

On 5/18/05, Scott Cantor 
<>
 wrote:
> > I didn't jump into the previous debate on this, but I thought the
> > conclusion was that it was required if we want developers to be able
> > to compile on 1.5 and then distribute to users on 1.4.
> 
> -source 1.4 supposedly also does this, and for whatever reason doesn't
> result in the problems Tom had. 

Correct.  Moreover, there is documentation and discussion on a
java.sun.com forum that suggests -target without certain other options
is not recommended.  So unless we add those other options, the -target
option can and should be removed.  (The "can" part comes from the
javac docs and the "should" part is based on my (admittedly limited)
experience.)

Another suggestion is the -deprecation option, which does the obvious
thing.  For J2SE 5.0, there's also the -Xlint option, which is even
better.  I've been using

        <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" includes="**/*.java" 
            source="1.4" debug="on">
            <classpath refid="build.path" />
            <compilerarg value="-Xlint" />  <!-- requires J2SE 5.0 -->
        </javac>

for some time now with good results.  (Is there anybody not developing
with J2SE 5.0?)

Thanks,
Tom