Fortunately (?), Apple hasn't put Java 6 on my computer yet. :-)
On Dec 28, 2007 1:59 PM, Kevin Menard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .. . . is likely going to be a pipedream. > > It appears Sun went out of their way to make the interface changes > incompatible between Java 5 & Java 6. Not only do the interface changes add > new methods, but these new methods use new types. So, throwing runtime > exceptions isn't an option because the types aren't available to a Java 5 > compiler. Not implementing a methods won't work in a Java 6 compiler > because the interface isn't fully implemented at that point. So, we have a > software engineering 101 principle violated. > > Fortunately, a Cayenne JAR built in Java 5 works fine in Java 6. Anyone > that wants to build the code in Java 6 is going to have problems though. > Oh, and just to make matters worse, the Windows Java 6 installer throws its > executables into %System32% so they get found on the path first. So, not > only do you have to make Java 5 your JAVA_HOME (in order for mvn to work), > but you also have to blow out those binaries in order for the correct javac > to be used in general. > > Lots of fun. Thank you, Sun. > > -- > Kevin > >
