Re: compiling for old browsers
"Jonathan Chase" <[email protected]>
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Kalpesh, You're right - some of the Java 5 features are not going to work in previous versions without a little help. However, like previously mentioned, Retrotranslater will take care of it - we're actually using this in production in several systems where we have some APIs written using Java 5 features and running in both 1.4 and 5.0 environments. Jon On 5/27/08, Kalpesh Soni <[email protected]> wrote: > > I take that back > > Looks like 5.0 stuff cannot be made backward compatible! > :( > > javac: source release 1.5 requires target release 1.5 > > -Kal > > > On 5/27/08, Kalpesh Soni <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> using javac -target >> >> We should be able to compile a class to whatever version >> But, keep in mind, if you are using a class that exists only in 1.5 or >> 1.6, you cant use it else it would give a NoClassDefFoundError? >> >> You need only one compiler, but setup eclipse to compile to required class >> version. (Compiler compliance level) >> >> -Kalpesh >> > _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [email protected] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org