David H. wrote:
I, as a dummy Java user, would assume that Fink picks the latest JAVA that Apple installed on my machine. Now if I happen to have 1.3., 1.4, 1.5 it would pick 1.5
I dunno if that is fatal ? (I guess I have installed 1.5 so it would be my fault). Just fooling around, I know little about java :)
It would mean that jars built on systems with the 1.5 jvm wouldn't run on older systems... While I don't think the bytecode has changed much, the class libraries are only backwards-compatible, not forwards. So if you pick up weird 1.5 features they wouldn't work on a 1.4 jvm and so on.
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