Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-11 Thread Rainer Frey
On 04.02.2013, at 19:40, Christopher Schultz wrote: > It's a "maybe". If you use "-target 1.6" and you make sure not to use > any APIs that are Java 1.7+ (not sure if the compiler actually checks > when you use -target 1.6) It does not. -target only sets the class file format. There's an option

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-05 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 André, On 2/4/13 2:37 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Thanks to all. I got more than I was bargaining for. > > To summarise thus, if I understand correctly what was said here, > and asking forgiveness in advance for pretty bad English style : > > - any

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread André Warnier
Thanks to all. I got more than I was bargaining for. To summarise thus, if I understand correctly what was said here, and asking forgiveness in advance for pretty bad English style : - any well-written java application, which does not use any vendor-specific JVM API (or "internals") should be

Re: OT RE: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Nick, On 2/4/13 1:42 PM, Williams, Nick wrote: >> No wonder those guys were so reticent to change the JDBC API to >> (directly) support the upcoming Java Date & Time APIs: they've >> made everyone so angry in the past they don't want to do it again

OT RE: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Williams, Nick
> No wonder those guys were so reticent to change the JDBC API to > (directly) support the upcoming Java Date & Time APIs: they've made everyone > so angry in the past they don't want to do it again ;) > - -chris Chris, DID/WILL they update the JDBC API to support the new date/time API? Or did

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chuck, On 2/4/13 9:55 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] - the classes of a >> servlet that has been compiled under a Sun/Oracle Java 1.7 JDK >> will run fine under Tomcat 6 and a Sun/Oracle Java 1.6 JVM

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 2/4/13 8:57 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 04/02/2013 13:41, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >>> From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Tomcat >>> and Sun/Oracle Java 7 >> >>>> What is th

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Jess Holle
On 2/4/2013 9:32 AM, Williams, Nick wrote: -Original Message- From: Jess Holle [mailto:je...@ptc.com] ... It's that you can't make Java source code which /implements /JDBC interfaces and make it compilable with both Java 6 and Java 7. The JDBC interfaces have new methods in Java 7 *and

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2013/2/4 André Warnier : > >(...) > > I apologise if these are more Java-level questions than Tomcat-level > questions, but as a sysadmin I have to decide which JVM to install, to run > Tomcat along with webapps which I receive pre-compiled, and other non-Tomcat > Java applications also precompiled

RE: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Williams, Nick
> -Original Message- > From: Jess Holle [mailto:je...@ptc.com] > > ... > It's that you can't make Java source code which /implements /JDBC interfaces > and make it compilable with both Java 6 and Java 7. The JDBC interfaces have > new methods in Java 7 *and* some of these new methods use

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Jess Holle
ugh wrapper classes for easy extension. -- Jess Holle On 2/4/2013 8:39 AM, André Warnier wrote: Mark Thomas wrote: On 04/02/2013 13:41, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7 What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracl

RE: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] > Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7 > - tomcat 6 will run fine under a Sun/Oracle Java 1.6 JVM > - tomcat 7 will run fine under a Sun/Oracle Java 1.6 JVM > - tomcat 6 will run fine under a Sun/Oracle Java 1.7 JVM > - tomc

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Thomas
On 04/02/2013 14:39, André Warnier wrote: > Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 04/02/2013 13:41, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >>>> From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Tomcat and >>>> Sun/Oracle Java 7 >>>>> What is the status of Tomcat

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread André Warnier
Mark Thomas wrote: On 04/02/2013 13:41, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7 What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracle Java 7 ? I vaguely remember seeing some messages on this list about some kind of incompatibility

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Thomas
On 04/02/2013 13:41, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Tomcat and >> Sun/Oracle Java 7 > >>> What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracle Java 7 ? I vaguely >>> remember seeing some messages on this list about

RE: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] > Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7 > > What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracle Java 7 ? > > I vaguely remember seeing some messages on this list about some kind of > > incompatibility. > There are no known iss

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Thomas
On 04/02/2013 09:37, André Warnier wrote: > Hi. > What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracle Java 7 ? > I vaguely remember seeing some messages on this list about some kind of > incompatibility. > But I cannot find anything readily mentioned in Tomcat 7's Release Notes > or similar places. There a