Re: Question: what version of jdk is bcel 5.1 expected to be run with?

Thomas Hawtin wrote:
> Claudio Corsi wrote:
> 
>>
>> I have been using this tool to create a byte-code enhancement of 
>> created class files and I kept getting a NoSuchMethodError.
>>
>> The reason that I get this is because I am running my application with 
>> jdk 1.3 and the method that causes this exception is the 
>> StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer) method.
>>
>> This method does not exist within jdk 1.3 but it is part of the 
>> distribution of jdk 1.4.
>>
>> The interesting thing about this is that I was able to build the bcel 
>> 5.1 source using jdk 1.3!
> 
> 
> For any program with code like:
> 
>     String s;
>     StringBuffer b;
>     ...
>     b.append(s);
> 
> Then using the 1.4 libraries it will compile to using 
> StringBuffer.append(String), while 1.3 will use 
> StringBuffer.append(Object) (neither of which have very nice threading 
> properties, but that's rarely significant). The standard solution is to 
> use the 1.3 libraries as the bootclasspath to javac. An easy way to do 
> that is to use JDK 1.3, but I'd suggest using 1.4 with -bootclasspath. 
> If that's out of your control you can always explicitly choose the other 
> append method:
> 
>     b.append((Object)s);
> 
> Tom Hawtin
> 

Tom,

The code in question is LineNumberTable toString method here is the code:

   public final String toString() {
     StringBuffer buf  = new StringBuffer();
     StringBuffer line = new StringBuffer();

     for(int i=0; i < line_number_table_length; i++) {
       line.append(line_number_table[i].toString());

       if(i < line_number_table_length - 1)
	line.append(", ");

       if(line.length() > 72) {
	line.append('\n');
	buf.append(line);   <-------
	line.setLength(0);
       }
     }

     buf.append(line);

     return buf.toString();
   }

The shows use that we are appending a StringBuffer and StringBuffer does 
not contain such a method within jdk 1.3. It has been introduced in jdk 1.4.

This will compile with jdk 1.4 and jdk 1.3. I have not javap the code 
but I would assume that the jdk 1.3 compiler would call the passed 
StringBuffer toString method to allow this to work.

--Claudio

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