Re: PrintServiceLookup cannot find printer/printservice in Centos

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:44:17 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<2533463a-ce31-40af-a4b4-2dd648af9497@19g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>
cyber sana wrote:

Any method to make it running in Java 1.4.2 ? As whole my application
is made of 1.4.2


Lew wrote:

There's nothing in the Javadocs I see to explain that. It should have=

 worked

in Java 1.4.

Just out of curiosity, why are you stuck with such an ancient Java versi=

on?

New Java 456 wrote:

--
Lew


Please do not quote sigs.

Also, does the Java 1.4 code work with the java [sic] 1.6 VM? If so, y=

ou

Unless it contains 'enum' as an identifier, Java 1.4 code runs under
the Java 6 VM.

can run with the Java 1.6VM if you include the rt.jar. Conversely, you


You don't need to include the rt.jar when you are moving to a later
Java version.

can build with the 1.6 javac and target 1.4 VM's [sic]. I'd doubt that wo=

uld

help but could try it in case the problem is in the library code and
not the VM.


Which library code? I don't think the Java API is the problem here.
I used 'PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices()' back when I was
programming under Java 1.4 and it worked just fine then.

I've worked some major company where they are still usign Java 1.4


Haven't we all? This might or might not be why the OP is stuck on
1.4. I guess we'll have to wait for them to answer my question to
find out.

... old dogs don't die I guess. Never mind java [sic] 1.6
VM might be 75% faster than java [sic] 1.4 VM in addition to much better


Never mind Java 6's better semantics, more robust memory model, more
robust API, additional syntactic features, not being obsolete, ...

OP: You will probably have to supply an SSCCE <http://sscce.org/> for
us to help you. The information you have given so far indicates that
there should be no problem, so the problem must lie in the information
you have not given so far.

--
Lew

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