Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-11 Thread Rainer Frey
On 04.02.2013, at 19:40, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: It's a maybe. If you use -target 1.6 and you make sure not to use any APIs that are Java 1.7+ (not sure if the compiler actually checks when you use -target 1.6) It does not. -target only sets the class file

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-05 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 André, On 2/4/13 2:37 PM, André Warnier wrote: Thanks to all. I got more than I was bargaining for. To summarise thus, if I understand correctly what was said here, and asking forgiveness in advance for pretty bad English style : - any

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Thomas
On 04/02/2013 09:37, André Warnier wrote: Hi. What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracle Java 7 ? I vaguely remember seeing some messages on this list about some kind of incompatibility. But I cannot find anything readily mentioned in Tomcat 7's Release Notes or similar places. There are no

RE: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7 What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracle Java 7 ? I vaguely remember seeing some messages on this list about some kind of incompatibility. There are no known issues. Although there are no issues

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Thomas
On 04/02/2013 13:41, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7 What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracle Java 7 ? I vaguely remember seeing some messages on this list about some kind of incompatibility

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread André Warnier
Mark Thomas wrote: On 04/02/2013 13:41, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7 What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracle Java 7 ? I vaguely remember seeing some messages on this list about some kind of incompatibility

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Thomas
On 04/02/2013 14:39, André Warnier wrote: Mark Thomas wrote: On 04/02/2013 13:41, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7 What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracle Java 7 ? I vaguely remember seeing some messages

RE: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7 - tomcat 6 will run fine under a Sun/Oracle Java 1.6 JVM - tomcat 7 will run fine under a Sun/Oracle Java 1.6 JVM - tomcat 6 will run fine under a Sun/Oracle Java 1.7 JVM - tomcat 7 will run fine under

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Jess Holle
Holle On 2/4/2013 8:39 AM, André Warnier wrote: Mark Thomas wrote: On 04/02/2013 13:41, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7 What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracle Java 7 ? I vaguely remember seeing some messages

RE: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Williams, Nick
-Original Message- From: Jess Holle [mailto:je...@ptc.com] ... It's that you can't make Java source code which /implements /JDBC interfaces and make it compilable with both Java 6 and Java 7. The JDBC interfaces have new methods in Java 7 *and* some of these new methods use

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2013/2/4 André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com: (...) I apologise if these are more Java-level questions than Tomcat-level questions, but as a sysadmin I have to decide which JVM to install, to run Tomcat along with webapps which I receive pre-compiled, and other non-Tomcat Java applications also

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Jess Holle
On 2/4/2013 9:32 AM, Williams, Nick wrote: -Original Message- From: Jess Holle [mailto:je...@ptc.com] ... It's that you can't make Java source code which /implements /JDBC interfaces and make it compilable with both Java 6 and Java 7. The JDBC interfaces have new methods in Java 7

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 2/4/13 8:57 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 04/02/2013 13:41, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7 What is the status of Tomcat vs Sun/oracle Java 7 ? I vaguely

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chuck, On 2/4/13 9:55 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] - the classes of a servlet that has been compiled under a Sun/Oracle Java 1.7 JDK will run fine under Tomcat 6 and a Sun/Oracle Java 1.6 JVM

OT RE: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Williams, Nick
No wonder those guys were so reticent to change the JDBC API to (directly) support the upcoming Java Date Time APIs: they've made everyone so angry in the past they don't want to do it again ;) - -chris Chris, DID/WILL they update the JDBC API to support the new date/time API? Or did they

Re: OT RE: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Nick, On 2/4/13 1:42 PM, Williams, Nick wrote: No wonder those guys were so reticent to change the JDBC API to (directly) support the upcoming Java Date Time APIs: they've made everyone so angry in the past they don't want to do it again ;)

Re: Tomcat and Sun/Oracle Java 7

2013-02-04 Thread André Warnier
Thanks to all. I got more than I was bargaining for. To summarise thus, if I understand correctly what was said here, and asking forgiveness in advance for pretty bad English style : - any well-written java application, which does not use any vendor-specific JVM API (or internals) should be