Archive for September, 2006

Getting Closure

# 2006-09-23 23:49:35 -0400 | General / Java | 8 Comments

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Closure Proposal 0.2

Don’t be fooled by javac -target 1.4

# 2006-09-15 11:43:52 -0400 | General / Java | 2 Comments

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been pinged a few times by cow orkers in the FishEye development team who were complaining about a mysterious JDK1.5 dependency in our code. Their development builds were breaking on a JDK1.4 JVM with an error like: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.StringBuffer.append(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)Ljava/lang/StringBuffer; The sweat started pouring the first time I got that complaint; [...]