Hi all, I'm currently working on the migration to Java 8 in Debian and several packages are broken due to the lack of invokedynamic support in BCEL 5.2 (the dreaded ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 18). I think it's high time for a release. Even if the current code isn't perfect it's far better than BCEL 5.2 (there are ~60 issues fixed in JIRA).
The code on the trunk isn't fully compatible with the previous release due to the addition of methods to the Visitor interface. By Commons standards we would usually change the package, however I think it's safe to keep the org.apache.bcel package as is. The Visitor interface is never implemented directly, I have found that projects always extend the EmptyVisitor class instead. I've rebuilt several projects using BCEL (ant, ant-contrib, clirr, clirr-maven-plugin, ha-jdbc, jbossas, jibx, mx4j, xalan, maven-shared-jar, robocode) and they all worked fine with the current snapshot. The code on the trunk is numbered 6.0, are we ok with that or should we use 5.3 for the next release? Emmanuel Bourg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
