1. I wish jikes would move up to 1.5; my life is spent waiting for
things to compile again.
I've skipped Java 1.5 for various reasons:
1 - the 'enhanced for loop' is just crap
2 - I've not needed generics, I actually have no need for one of the
major features of the language, maybe I could change all my code so that
the collections are aware of the type of data they contain, but I'm used
to the 'old' way and it's no bother [shrug]
3 - boxing/unboxing isn't really that special either
4 - annotations, these seem to be in place for EE/EJB development and
I'm using hibernate and spring. Sure I could use them to declare
interfaces etc, but I'm genuinely ok with the old way
5 - static imprts pah I say!
and finally
6 - Jikes doesn't support it, WebLogic doesn't support it (then WebLogic
barely supports Java)
2. <> looks ugly in generics; it should stay in XML where it belongs.
Maybe that shows the price of copying c++ too slavishly (except I
still think they should haved stuck to bool instead of boolean)
I like boolean, looking at XJ, having the <> in the Java code does look
a little awkward
3. I fear there may be a limit to how well you can take the existing
java syntax and make it better for XML, just as with C-omega.
Functional and AI languages are a much more natural fit to working
with complex graphs/trees of XML data.
Interesting to see what could be done with Lisp for XML processing, but
then Lisp is for Lists, not graphs/trees
On the subject of java1.5; who is using <apt> yet?
see above for my Java5 comments
Kev
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