vagaries on java varieties

[justin]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Bryan Sant <bryan.sant at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Levi Pearson <levi at cold.org> wrote:
>  >  At work, we have to use several crappy Java programs (not Java's
>  >  fault, of course), and several of them are very particular about their
>  >  Java versions.  Having to have several versions of the JRE installed
>  >  kind of sucks, but at least some of the blame probably lies with the
>  >  programmers of said crappy applications.
>
>  The committee that directs the Java specification (the JCP), has
>  painstakingly tried to maintain backwards compatibility with each new
>  release of Java.  An app written for Java 1.2 should run fine on Java
>  6.  However, there have been a few times where they've broken the
>  rules and caused incompatibilities between old classes or the way the
>  JRE works for the good of the platform as a whole moving forward.
>  Java 5 broke some minor things, and Java 6 broke some more.  Here is a
>  comprehensive list of the incompatibilities between releases:
>  http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/compatibility.jsp
>

most of the problems with JRE incompatibilities i've run into are
things like Extensity, which appears to depend on the old broken
Microsoft JRE...

justin
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