There really *should* be a way to set the equivalent of "libraryLevel" to JDK 5 without having to separately install Java 5.
Essentially this would mean elevating @since to be compile-time visible and making javac ignore things that it was not supposed to see. Compared to the mess that is bootclasspath this would be *much* more usable. By the time one might use bootclasspath one might as well just stick with an old JDK -- it's less hassle. Except in NetBeans where is is really hard to separate the JDK the IDE runs with from the JDK used for compilation, but that's a NetBeans issue that should just be fixed there -- or better yet fixed via a -libraryLevel or some such flag. -- Jess Holle jddarcy wrote: > During episode #281, Carl described some issues with cross compiling > from a JDK 6 install (on a Mac in this case) to run on JDK 5. The > javac man page documents how to do this; in brief the -target has to > be set to the older version and the bootclasspath for compiling must > point to a rt.jar from the older JDK too: > > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/javac.html#crosscomp-example > > If the bootclasspath is not set, while the resulting class files may > work, differences in method resolution could cause use of methods not > present in the older release: > http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/how_to_cross_compile_for > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~-- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
