Hi Dan, The only obstacle is finding the time... which I have in short supply ATM.
I hope we can step up and provide a new release though. I have seen some commits recently fly by... Can you look at what is in trunk and see what is missing for you? If there specific features that are missing, one or more Jira tickets would help. Thank you, Gary On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:05 PM, dkulp <dk...@apache.org> wrote: > > Is there any update to a possible new BCEL release that would work with > Java8. This is a blocker for full Java8 support for Apache CXF (due to > JIBX), Camel (again, JIBX), etc... > > Dan > > > > Emmanuel Bourg-3 wrote > > 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-unsubscribe@.apache > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > dev-help@.apache > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-commons.680414.n4.nabble.com/bcel-Next-release-tp4662789p4664160.html > Sent from the Commons - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
