[jdom-interest] JDOM Beta 9 RC 2

[Gordon Tyler]

John L. Webber - Jentro AG wrote:
> As far as the source code is concerned it probably doesn't matter, but 
> anyone using the pre-built jars with a pre-1.4 VM will likely see an 
> exception like this:
> java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Test (Unsupported major.minor 
> version 48.0)
> 
> I'm not sure if this will happen with an external library compiled under 
> 1.4 but run pre-1.4. Does anyone have time to test that -- I have 
> meetings this morning... ;-(

JDK 1.4 introduced some changes in the class file format, upping the 
class version, hence the exception. Pre-1.4 JVMs will not be able to use 
classes compiled by the 1.4 compiler at all.

Ciao,
Gordon

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