[MIME4J-85] Upgrade source to Java 5

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5
• Fix Version/s: 0.6
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Markus Wiederkehr
• Created: 09/Nov/08 19:22
• Updated: 04/Feb/09 20:50
• Resolved: 16/Nov/08 12:58

Description

The Mime4j API would greatly benefit from Java 5 language features, most of all Generics.

For backward compatibility with JVM 1.4 the generated jar file could be transformed using the Retrotranslator Maven Plugin. If this compatibility is required new features of the Java 5 API (such as StringBuilder) cannot be used.