I'd much rather we build the release with jdk 1.3.

There are 1.4 specific methods, e.g. in StringBuffer that mean that
code compiled on 1.4 wont necessarily run on 1.3

On 9/2/05, Henning P. Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> >c) The jar file is built on JDK1.4. Is that your target JDK version? If
> >your target is lower, then compiling using JDK1.4 can cause issues when
> >running with earlier versions. This discussion has occurred before in
> >the archives. The chances are that in a component like this, you won't
> >be affected, but the risk is present. This point is -0.
> 
> It is built with (in project.properties):
> 
> maven.compile.source=1.3
> maven.compile.target=1.3
> 
> so that shouldn't be a problem IMHO. (Eric and I did our tests on the
> 1.4.2 runtime, though). Thanks for pointing this out, if you advise to
> build the release using the 1.3.1 JDK, I will consider looking into
> this.
> 
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