In practice, no. While the bytecode versioning is well defined, runtime changes break compatibility. To take an example seen a few days ago, in Java 7 the FileChannel interface has a new interface SeekableByteChannel. Implementations of FileChannel compiled with Java 7 (even with target 6 as we have) cannot be loaded by a Java 6 JRE because the interface SeekableByteChannel, which is mentioned in the class file, cannot be found in that environment. Result: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/nio/channels/SeekableByteChannel
Kind regards, Ben. On 11/06/13 12:06, Brett Walker wrote: > Can the source code and the target code be split? For example, could the > source code be Java 7 but target code be Java 6. Is this a useful transition? -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
