So following up on my previous post,I figured the only way to get to path 2 is to do something on path 2 before somebody hired me to do path 2 stuff.Did a bit of research around looking for open sources projects that were interesting.I have kind of picked JRUBY for now, it is reasonably established and at the same time has lot of stuff still being worked on it or atleast thats what their JIRA says http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY.So I tried to get it to compile on my machine only to realize it needed Java 1.5.Then I just tried forcing it to compile with Java 1.4 and then thanks to the tons of errors it spewed, I realized how back dated my Java skills were and spent some time learning about Enums and generics and static imports with java 1.5 which has been around for over 4 years now and I don't see we using it on our project at office anytime in the next 2 years atleast :-(