Re: [jetty-discuss] JDK5 references in Jetty 6 project

[Greg W. <gr...@mo...>]

Stephen,

can you email the exact compile errors so I can remove these.
I am currently travelling and do not have a machine with 1.4 installed on
it (and target 1.4 does not detect new methods).

thanks


Stephen McConnell wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jet...@li... 
>> [mailto:jet...@li...] On 
>> Behalf Of Ludwig Laman
>> Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2006 3:22 PM
>> To: Discussion for Jetty development.; mcc...@dp...
>> Subject: Re: [jetty-discuss] JDK5 references in Jetty 6 project
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> There was a slight problem with Main.java in rev 734 which 
>> has just been fixed (rev 736). However, I attempted to 
>> compile it which jdk1.4 and failed but it went well with 
>> jdk1.5. Would you like to try compiling it in that version? 
>> I'm still investigating the issue with jdk1.4 though..
> 
> Hi Ludwig:
> 
> The issue with the JDK 1.4 build is due to the usage of methods on the
> URLConnection class that were added in JDK1.5 and do not exist in the 1.4
> version. In my case maintaining binary compatibility against 1.4 is a
> prerequisite.  For the moment I've reverted to the RC0 build which does not
> reference any of the 1.5 methods.
> 
> Cheers, Steve.
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