Hi Radu, I see. That explains exactly what I encountered - we were trying to compile a new schema using xmlbean from ant, and couldn't figure out why it failed to see the jar and kept compiling its own version of the imported schema.
-- Jim On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Radu Preotiuc-Pietro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It does say exactly that, if you are trying to use them at "runtime" > say. > > But if you are trying to compile a new Schema with dependencies in jars > with an incompatible version number, there is something about that case > that makes it ignore that jar rather than report an error. I am not sure > if it is a bug or a feature (since you can still compile and use that > Schema) ... > > Radu > > > > On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 06:07 -0700, Jim the Standing Bear wrote: > > Thank you Radu. I tend to get a little confused on backward > > compatibility and forward compatibility > > > > > > This is certainly a good thing to know. The internal version numbers > > are fine as long as the dumpxsb tool can tell the difference, just > > like JDK, they don't need to correspond to the release version > > numbers. > > > > In the future, is there possibilities to let xmlbean tool to say > > something similar to JRE, that a bean jar is compiled with 24, > > expecting 23 blah blah rather than simply not being able to find it? > > It would've been much more informative and helpful to naive users like > > me. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Radu Preotiuc-Pietro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Actually, since you are interested in XMLBeans 2.2.0 and 2.3.0, > > those > > > numbers are 23 for XMLBeans 2.2.0 and 24 for XMLBeans 2.3.0. > > > > > > Radu > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 15:08 -0700, Radu Preotiuc-Pietro wrote: > > > > They are backwards compatible, but they are not "forwards" > > compatible. > > > > What I mean by that is that a newer version of XmlBeans (say > > 2.3.0) can > > > > read jars compiled with an older version (say 2.2.0). But > > XmlBeans 2.2.0 > > > > can't read jars compiled with XmlBeans 2.3.0. That would be a > > much > > > > stronger requirement and few software offers this guarantee > > (think Java: > > > > you can use JDK 1.5 to run classes compiled with JDK 1.4 but if > > you try > > > > to run in JDK1.4 classes compiled with JDK1.5, you get an error). > > > > > > > > To answer your second question, there is a script in the bin > > directory > > > > of the distribution "dumpxsb". If you do "dumpxsb xmltypes.jar", > > it will > > > > spew a "Major version" and a "Minor version". Now those versions > > are not > > > > equivalent to XMLBeans release versions but if you compare the > > version > > > > numbers in jars generated with different versions of XMLBeans, > > you will > > > > quickly see which jars are compatible and which aren't (again, > > this is > > > > pretty much like Java's class version number). > > > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Radu > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:59 -0400, Jim the Standing Bear wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > For the past week I have been struggling with importing a > > pre-compiled > > > > > schema beans where xmlbean would fail to see the schema in the > > jar > > > > > included in the classpath and kept generating its own version. > > > > > > > > > > Finally we made the discovery that the pre-compiled schema > > beans jar > > > > > that I was trying to import was compiled using xmlbeans 2.3.0, > > but we > > > > > are using v2.2.0. So I guess they are not backwards > > compatible? > > > > > > > > > > If someone throws me a jar and says "here, use this", is there > > a way > > > > > for me to tell which version of xmlbeans it used to compile? > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > -- Jim > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may > > contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and > > affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, > > copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the > > use of the individual or entity named in this message. 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