[x3d-public] X3DJSAIL, X3dToJava.xslt and DOM X3DLoaderObject testing: anotherClassCastException; maintaining Java 8 compatibility

[Don Brutzman]

On 6/6/2018 3:51 PM, John Carlson wrote:
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html#readAllBytes--
> 
> InputStream has readAllBytes in java 9.

Understood.  As before, am not moving past Java 8 until Netbeans (and thus X3D-Edit) does.

You might further consider that keeping your code backwards compatible makes it more widely usable.  The entire X3DJSAIL codebase and .jar files are Java 8 compatible, am hoping to keep it that way.  The major functionality addition in Java 8 of pipeline processing was a great step up for our Java implementation of X3D.

So avoiding a Java 9 feature, if possible, is a good medium-term (1-2 year) strategy and not just a short-term (wait for Netbeans) strategy.

>  CRSN.

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> JOHN

as ever, thanks for exploring these possibilities and rationales.

all the best, Don
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