JDK8 Preliminary Repository Layout

[Alan Bateman]

Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>
> I don't think that is the reason for the 1.4. But someone closer to 
> this SA project would need to clarify this.
>
> The reason was so that the SA could potentially operate on an older 
> JDK as I recall.
> I suspect 1.4 settings should have been changed to 1.5 in 1.6, and 
> maybe 1.6 in 1.7.
Sundar or Swamy might remember, but I'm pretty sure that SA was 
deliberately not updated to use generics in the jdk5 time-frame because 
the code was being used to get SA working with 1.4.2. Ancient history 
now and a nice little project for someone to do some clean-up. In any 
case, it's not good to compile with -source 1.4 without also setting 
-bootclasspath to specify the corresponding platform classes so another 
reason to re-visit this.

-Alan