>> This is not so much a question of what can I do to fix this, as highlighting >> the fact that an app built on b13 and then run on b23 is utterly broken. >> With auto updating jre's this means someone who has an app in the wild will >> suddenly have it break for all their customers. Massive backwards >> compatibility problem between minor build releases is not good for any of >> us. >> >> As an aside, from memory I don't think the original CSS is included in the >> jar by the packaging tools but I haven't checked. > > I can confirm that there was a change in the format of the bss file. I can > only promise to be more careful in the future.
Sounds like this needs to be fixed in the next 7 update because as Daniel says, we're completely breaking existing apps. Also, we need to get a test in place to catch this in the future (will need to check into the repo a bss file produced on, say 2.0 and then we just have a test which deserializes it during the test run). Richard
