[hibernate-dev] Re: Antlr3 / JDK 1.5

[Steve Ebersole]

OK, my email (hibernate.org) is finally back.  Perhaps just heard no
responses because it was down?

Any objections?


On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 08:54 -0500, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> I am working wth Alexandre Porcelli on some major changes to the HQL
> translators.  Since the changes are drastic we decided to move from
> Antlr2 to Antlr3 in the process as Antlr3 offers many benefits over
> Antlr2.  
> 
> The only concern I have with the move to Antlr3 is the fact that Antlr3
> only works with JDK 1.5+.  I had planned on incorporating this work into
> Hibernate 3.5.  The obvious question being the corresponding JDK move
> for Hibernate users migrating to 3.5.
> 
> Anyone have strong reasons to not do this move in the 3.5 timeframe?
> 
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Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>
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