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Retrotranslator 272<br />

Retrotranslator<br />

Stable release 1.2.6 / February 29, 2008<br />

Written in Java<br />

Operating<br />

system<br />

Cross-platform<br />

Platform Java Virtual Machine<br />

License BSD-like License<br />

Website [1]<br />

Retrotranslator is a program written in Java that converts Java classes (bytecode). The source classes may use Java<br />

1.5 and Java 1.6 features, whereas the target will be compatible with Java 1.4 and older environments.<br />

Retrotranslator supports all Java 5 language features and part of the Java 5 API on both J2SE 1.4 and J2SE 1.3. On<br />

older Java environments only the Java 5 features that don't depend on the new API are supported. Retrotranslator is<br />

based on the ASM bytecode manipulation framework and the backport of the Java 5.0 concurrency utilities (see<br />

http:/ / backport-jsr166. sourceforge. net/ )<br />

The Stripes Framework developers suggest to use Retrotranslator in order to use Stripes (which extensively use Java<br />

1.5 features) on a Java 1.4 environment [2]<br />

Alternative tools<br />

• Retroweaver<br />

• Declawer<br />

• JBossRetro<br />

External links<br />

• Java backporting tools<br />

References<br />

[1] http:/ / retrotranslator. sourceforge. net/<br />

[2] http:/ / www. stripesframework. org/ display/ stripes/ Java+ 1. 4+ and+ Stripes

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