Easy way to backport Java 6 code to Java 5?

Question

We\'ve been developing a windows based application using Java for a while now, but NOW we want to make a mac port and have to reverse of code from Java 6 and Java 5. Is there a

Answer 1

Do you know how much you would have to rewrite if you just went back to Java 5? If you changes the JDK setting in your IDE and try to recompile it should give you a pretty good idea on how big the changes would actually be. For most developers, Java 6 didn't really offer too much in the way of new features/APIs but I guess it's possible your project depends heavily on something that was added.