RE: Groovy Compiler

"James Poli via users" <users-GSC0n/0aZo1d/SJB6HiN2Ni2O/[email protected]> Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:01:37 +0000

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Thanks, Daniel; I'll give it a try.  Regards, Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Sun <[email protected]> 
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2024 7:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Groovy Compiler

EXTERNAL

try setting the following system property for groovy compilation:

-Dgroovy.target.bytecode=1.8

Cheers,
Daniel Sun

On 2024/12/13 00:14:39 James Poli via users wrote:
> Our company has upgraded to Groovy 4 and JDK 21. However, one platform we support, MVS, only supports a JDK 8 runtime.
>
> When running a class compiled with Groovy 4, an exception results:
>
> ... java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: JVMCFRE199E bad major version 61.0 of class=..., the maximum supported major version is 52.0; offset=6
>
> Can we cross-compile or force Groovy to generate bytecodes that support JDK 8?
>
> I appreciate any help you can provide.
> Jim
>
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