So the Retrotranslator(http://retrotranslator.sourceforge.net) seems decent and is more complete than our retro weave effort so I would like to try it out on the jbossws-1.0 effort to validate a jdk14 compatible translation of this stack can pass all of the jboss4.0.x webservice tests.

I have validated that the Retrotranslator can translate the current jdk5 compiled code by updating the compile-classes15 target:

 <target name="compile-classes15" depends="init" if="HAVE_JDK_1.5">
 <mkdir dir="${build.classes}"/>
 <javac destdir="${build.classes}"
 optimize="${javac.optimize}"
 target="1.5"
 source="1.5"
 debug="${javac.debug}"
 depend="${javac.depend}"
 verbose="${javac.verbose}"
 deprecation="${javac.deprecation}"
 includeAntRuntime="${javac.include.ant.runtime}"
 includeJavaRuntime="${javac.include.java.runtime}"
 failonerror="${javac.fail.onerror}">
 <src path="${source.java}"/>
 <classpath refid="javac.classpath"/>
 </javac>

 <!-- The default location is in this directory -->
 <property name="retrotranslator.dist" value="/cvs/JBossHead/jbossretro/Retrotranslator-0.9.5-bin" />
 <property name="jdk14.home" value="/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_09" />
 <path id="tests.classpath">
 <fileset dir="${retrotranslator.dist}">
 <include name="retrotranslator-runtime.jar" />
 <include name="retrotranslator-transformer.jar" />
 </fileset>
 </path>
 <taskdef name="retro"
 classname="net.sf.retrotranslator.transformer.RetrotranslatorTask"
 classpathref="tests.classpath" />

 <mkdir dir="output/classes14" />
 <retro destdir="output/classes14"
 verify="true"
 failonwarning="true">
 <!-- Apparently needs the 14 rt.jar -->
 <classpath location="${jdk14.home}/jre/lib/rt.jar" />
 <classpath refid="tests.classpath" />
 <classpath refid="javac.classpath" />
 <src path="output/classes" />
 </retro>

 </target>

The Retrotranslator-0.9.5 jars have since been added to the binary repository under retrotranslator/0.9.5.

Some additional work is needed to refactor some of the external dependencies on the server, etc module classes I would imagine. Can we work towards getting a jdk14 packaging of the webservices jars/sar into the repository for testing against jboss4.0.x?