Thinking more on this, you'd at least have to remove generics signature information from the bytecode. Those are the main differences between these levels of bytecode I can think of, although there certainly could be more to it. I feel like there once was a utility out there to do this job though.
Matt On Aug 24, 2013 12:23 AM, "Matt Benson" <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting. There is a project in the Apache Commons sandbox, the > [weaver] component, which provides a general infrastructure for performing > bytecode transformations. An Ant task is provided. It might be fairly > trivial to rewrite 1.5 bytecode to v1.3; I'm not sure. > > Matt > On Aug 23, 2013 10:11 PM, "Raja Nagendra Kumar" < > nagendra.r...@tejasoft.com> wrote: > >> ** >> Hi, >> >> Is there any ant task, which allows manupulation of annotations with in >> java source code.. >> >> The need I have is, I want to either strip all the annotations within the >> java source code as java 1.3 (used for javame) does not support annotations >> or use Simple xml parser for Android while on server side we can used jaxb. >> We need to do this, without deplicating the same code at 3 places but with >> one single source code but with build time manipulations. >> >> Regards, >> Nagendra >> *Raja Nagendra Kumar* >> Founder & C.T.O *Mobile:* +91-9886723872 >> *Email:* nagendra.r...@tejasoft.com >> *IM:* nagendra.raja (Skype) >> *http://in.linkedin.com/in/nagkumar* >> *TejaSoft Innovations Pvt Ltd* >> <http://www.tejasoft.com> >> Factor 4 Results See who we know in >> common<http://www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/5094208/?hs=false&tok=0bfzEZotG8slI1> >> Want >> a signature like >> this?<http://www.linkedin.com/e/sig/5094208/?hs=false&tok=0uLVu92uq8slI1> >> >> >> >>
