On 2011-10-10 1:41 PM, Wayne Fay wrote:
OK, I still clearly do not understand how sniffer is supposed to work, and
it does not look like am going to any time soon, even after all these
explanations.
A signature is like:
char java.lang.String.charAt(int)
Animal sniffer compares the Java code you are writing against the
published signatures of popular Java APIs like Sun JDK 1.5, 1.6, IBM,
JRockit, etc. That's it! If this is helpful to you, use it. If you
need other functionality, animal sniffer may not be able to help you.
identifying the troublesome jar file. I am not really sure why no-one
recommended this to me in the first place as it effective and simple to
Uhhh Benson *did* suggest this... did you miss it??
Yes, I did miss it - I guess I got too curious about sniffer - and then
frustrated - and then too distracted to go back and read Benson's
remarks properly. My bad.
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Benson Margulies<bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote:
If you have to support 1.5, the easiest thing to do is eschew the use
of 1.6 features. Just set the compiler plugin options for source and
target of 1.5.
Again, I am at a complete loss to fathom any utility in the sniffer. Maybe I
It is quite possible that your needs simply do not match the
functionality provided by Animal sniffer. There are a large number of
people who find it useful. Their needs may be different from your own.
I was unable to determine if sniffer met my needs because I could not
understand what it was supposed to do.
Perhaps you can summarize in 1 sentence what problem you are trying to
solve, then various alternative solutions can be discussed.
To check that (1) my sources were compatible with a Java 5 run-time and
(2) that any dependencies I was using were also compatible with a Java 5
run-time (in particular that they did not contain version 50 class files).
I believe Stephen answered (1) for me quite elegantly. It would help
tremendously if his explanation were documented on the introduction
page. I'm not sure if sniffer solves (2) which really was my original
intent because I had already solved (1) by other means.
- Eric
Wayne
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