[rules-dev] Backport Drools 5 (with Fusion) to Java 1.4

[Thomas Frenken]

Hello,

I am interested in running Drools 5 (and especially Drools Fusion) on a 
>>somehow<< resource-constrained device for which only a J2SE 1.4 VM ist 
available.

Since Drools meanwhile requires J2SE 1.5 I thought about backporting it. 
But before I invest so much effort, I got two questions:

1) I have downloaded the sourcecode. At a first glance the only reason for 
requiering J2SE 1.5 is the extensive use of generics. In case I would 
remove all generics from the code, would it be possible to compile drools 
for a J2SE 1.4 VM runtime in general or are there other more hidden 
reasons for requiering J2SE 1.5?
2)  I already meantioned I am planning to run drools on a >>somehow<< 
resourcen-constrained device. I explicitly used the term >>somehow<< 
because I am talking of a device with a 400 Mhz CPU and 256 MB RAM (some 
people might laugh about calling this resource-constrained). How about 
resource-consumption of drools? Has anyone run drools on a device with 
similar resources?

Thanks in advance!

Best Regards
Thomas Frenken