[jboss-dev] Re: Jdk1.4 vs jdk5

[Scott M Stark]

Ok, but jboss4.2 requires jdk5 so this is a non-issue.

If we are doing jboss-4.0.x to jboss-4.2.x compatibility tests, the
jboss-4.2.x based client needs to run under jdk5. You still should be
able to run jboss-4.0.x based clients under jdk14. The interop issues
will be along the lines of jmx remoting, and leaking jdk5 based classes
in return values (like new util classes deep in a proxy). For the
interop we need to support we'll have to test it.

Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> I tried jbossxb 1.0.0.CR8 in jboss 4.2, that was compiled with jdk5, due
> to jboss-test (imported by jbossxb) being compiled with jdk5.
> 
> So all 1.4 based testsuite builds of jbossas 4.2 break immediately due
> to the jbossxb jdk5 compiled classes.
> Do we need to just drop those builds?
> 
> Also, how to deal with the compatibility tests? The way we use client
> libs from one jboss version against a running server of another version
> (e.g. 4.2 client libs against 4.0 server) will not work, unless we run
> the client with jdk5.
> 
> Is this what we are supposed to do? i.e. require all jboss 4.2 compiled
> code to need a jdk5 runtime?
> 
> Do you see any other issue interoperating with older servers running on
> jdk1.4 ?
> 
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