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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Raffi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Soot’s frontend for Java source code is fairly outdated at the moment. We are currently looking for students to update it to support newer Java versions. At the moment, I would recommend to use the bytecode frontend whenever possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The bytecode frontend should work with Java 8 as long as it does not contain some really specific invokedynamic behaviors or the like. Just give it a try, chances are that it works just fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> Steven<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> soot-list-bounces@CS.McGill.CA [mailto:soot-list-bounces@CS.McGill.CA] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Raffi Khatchadourian<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2015 19:47<br><b>An:</b> soot-list@CS.McGill.CA<br><b>Cc:</b> Subash Shankar<br><b>Betreff:</b> [Soot-list] Java 8 support status<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Soot community,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I just wanted to inquire about the status of Soot and Java 8. I have seen a few issues on GitHub, as well as several email posts, but I noticed this today on the <a href="http://sable.github.io/soot/">Soot website</a>:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>What input formats does Soot provide?<br>Currently, Soot can process code from the following sources:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span> </span>• Java (bytecode and <b>source code up to Java 7</b>), including other languages that compile to Java bytecode, e.g. Scala<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>Does this mean that byte code is supported for all Java versions but source code is only supported up to Java 7? Thanks for your help!<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Raffi<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>