[jdom-interest] JDOM Beta 9 RC 2

[Stephan Trebels]

So you'd suggest to use JDK 1.2.2 with -target 1.2 to compile the binary
dist? 

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 20:01, Attila Szegedi wrote:
> One - quite subtle - issue you might run into is that in JDK 1.4 several
> core classes have new overloaded methods, and the compiler will generate
> calls to them, which under earlier JDKs will cause NoSuchMethodError-s as
> the affected classes in earlier JDKs don't feature those methods. The maybe
> most prominent example is
> 
> java.lang.StringBuffer.append(java.lang.StringBuffer)
> 
> method added in 1.4. If you happen to have code where you append a string
> buffer to another, then if you compile against 1.4 classes the compiler will
> emit code to call this overload, whereas compiling against older (1.3 or
> 1.2) JDK will emit code to call
> 
> java.lang.StringBuffer.append(java.lang.Object)
> 
> I was researching this very problem recently because I want to 100% ensure
> 1.2 compatibility on binary level and not only on source level in another
> project (the FreeMarker template engine) I'm administering, so I'm now
> adding bootclasspath attributes to the javac tasks in its build.xml file to
> point to a 1.2.2 JDK installation and making it mandatory for distro builds.
> 
> Attila.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Hunter" <jhunter at servlets.com>
> To: "Stephan Trebels" <stephan at ncube.de>
> Cc: "Gordon Tyler" <gordon.tyler at sitraka.com>; "JDOM Interest"
> <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 5:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] JDOM Beta 9 RC 2
> 
> 
> > In my testing the samples ran against JDK 1.2, but I'd like someone else
> > to confirm that.
> >
> > -jh-
> >
> 
> 
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