Re: Java 1.4 and Windows compatibility

From:

Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:42:08 -0400

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On 8/20/2014 8:22 AM, marc.at.compass@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

Maybe this is an obvious question but I'm not very Java savvy so bear with me.
I have a Java application using Java RE 1.4.2_05 and I need to migrate it to Windows server 2012. I want to keep using the JRE it's designed for so I will not have to bother with incompatibilities between JRE versions.
I can download this Java Runtime Environment version 1.4.2 from Oracle but I am not sure if the JRE 1.4.2 will run on Windows 2012... Can anyone confirm this?
Could there be any other reason why an application would not run in JRE 1.4.2 on Windows 2012?

     Let's look at the timeline (all dates from Wikipedia):

     1) 2002 Feb: Java 1.4 is released.

     2) 2008 Oct: Java 1.4 support ends.

     3) 2011 Sep: Windows Server 2012 first developer preview.

     4) 2012 Aug: Windows Server 2012 official release.

     In other words, you're asking whether there might be any problem
running a Java version that became unsupported four years before the
initial release of the O/S you want to run it on.

     Aww, gee, what could *possibly* go wrong?

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