Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote on Friday, September 02, 2005 1:00 PM: > Dion Gillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd much rather we build the release with jdk 1.3. > >> There are 1.4 specific methods, e.g. in StringBuffer that mean that >> code compiled on 1.4 wont necessarily run on 1.3 > > I thought that the -source and -target switches of javac were > intended to deal with these problems. Were they not?
Only if you tell the compiler to use also the rt.jar from the target JDK. Otherwise the compiler might chose a better fitting overloaded method, that was not available in the previous version. You can tell this Maven/Ant with a property, but this implies a known location of the proper rt.jar in the build environment. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
