Re: Upgrading to Java 6- will it run on 5?
On Feb 3, 5:21 am, stevecanfi...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Feb 2, 10:02 am, "Andrew Thompson" <andrewtho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Feb 3, 4:51 am, stevecanfi...@yahoo.com wrote:
If a developer builds something with Java jdk 6, do customers have to
be running a Java 6 jre to run the app? If you target version 5, will
the generated classes work on a Java 5 jre?
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Unfortunately we also have a class that implements java.sql.ResultSet
and that seems to have changed between 5 and 6 (now ResultSet extends
Wrapper).
So I think once we make the jump to 1.6, all of our customers will
need to as well.
Wrong. That ResultSet now extend's Wrapper
interface is of no huge problem, perhaps unless
the application actually *de/serailizes* ResultSet's.
It merely adds to the methods that are implemented
in ResultSet (by way of the Wrapper method
contract).
Compile aginst a 1.5 rt.jar as described earlier,
and the application should run on 1.5+.
Andrew T.
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