Make project Java 6 compatible

[nebhale]

Currently, REST Shell requires Java 7 in order to compile and run, however, Java 6 is still very widely used by developers. It appears that other than using the diamond operator and Strings in switch statements, there is no other use of Java 7 features, and not having those features shouldn't significantly affect the code.

Please update the source code to be Java 6 compatible.

[jbrisbin]

Thanks for the pull request! Also merged a change to homebrew for version 1.1.3.RELEASE which is Java 1.6 compatible. Very fast turnaround on that (like, an hour! :).

[jotomo]

The HttpCommands class uses Java 7's new file API (java.nio) in several methods, so this still fails to run on Java 6.

[jbrisbin]

Forgot about that. I'll switch that code out with the Java 6 equivalent.

[nebhale]

I've opened Issue #6 to track this

[hanxing]

It's still not java 6 compatible as of today, most half year later than the original requested was made.

[markpollack]

Care to make a contribution?
M

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On Apr 6, 2013, at 3:34 PM, hanxing [email protected] wrote:

It's still not java 6 compatible as of today, most half year later than the original requested was made.

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