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Retrotranslator is a Java bytecode transformer that translates Java classes compiled with JDK 5.0 into classes that can be run on JVM 1.4. It is a free, open-source tool based on the ASM bytecode manipulation framework and concurrency utilities backported to Java 1.4.

What Java 5.0 features are supported?

• Generics (generic types)
• Annotations (metadata)
• Reflection on generics and annotations
• Typesafe enums (enumerated types)
• Autoboxing/unboxing
• Enhanced for loop (for-each loop)
• Varargs (variable arguments)
• Covariant return types
• Static import
• Concurrency utilities
• Collections framework enhancements