Sure, but it takes even less time to simply use the JRE version for which an application is certified for and has been confirmed working on. It's not like the extra 50mb space taken by an alternative version matters much on a 2TB SAN.
Seriously, does anyone really strive to only have one vendor and one version of a JRE installed? Oracle SQLDeveloper doesn't work with Java 6, Oracle Discoverer needs Java 1.4, localization for Danish is broken in Java 1.5 etc. etc. /Casper On Oct 1, 4:50 pm, Alexey Zinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, it takes time to test, but it takes a lot less time to test something, > find that it works and give your blessing to run it on the newer VM, than > release it, find that something's broken if you upgrade the VM and have to > deal with it. > > Alexey > 2001 Honda CBR600F4i (CCS) > 1992 Kawasaki > EX500http://azinger.blogspot.comhttp://bsheet.sourceforge.nethttp://wcollage.sourceforge.net > > --- On Wed, 10/1/08, Casper Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Casper Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Old Java versions in use > > To: "The Java Posse" <[email protected]> > > Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 7:49 AM > > True but is the payback worth the trouble? The only way to > > truly know > > your app can run is to test each and every scenario of it, > > very hard > > to do, so its safest to just stay with an old. A base class > > might have > > gotten a new method, a bug which you relied on has been > > fixed etc. > > > So I kinda agrees with Matthew. Perhaps it's not worth > > it sacrificing > > innovation for (various levels of) backwards compatibility > > when it's > > often more a theoretical advantage than a realistic, > > practical one. > > > /Casper > > > On Oct 1, 12:35 pm, "Lars Westergren" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > So the funny thing to me, is that unless i'm > > missing something, all the > > > > effort that Sun went to trying to keep backwards > > compatibility was all for > > > > nowt, as there's plenty of other factors that > > bind applications to pre-1.5, > > > > that can't be resolved trivially. > > > > Logical fallacy I think. Isn't this like saying > > "Efforts to reduce > > > crime are for nowt because there is still crime"? > > Every time you start > > > a java app on a new JVM and it works, that is one > > success. > > > > Cheers, > > > Lars --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
