Is there a way to run gradle with the 1.5 jdk but tell it to compile
everything with a specific 1.4 jdk?  Even if only the ant task uses 1.4, it
should work.  It's only the ant task that needs and IBM-specific 1.4 jdk.
Thanks

-Jerod

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Hans Dockter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Jerod,
>
> On Jul 10, 2008, at 5:42 PM, JerodLass wrote:
>
>
>> I need to run gradle with a 1.4 jdk, specifically IBM's 1.4 jdk.  The
>> reason
>> for this is that I need to run a websphere EJB deploy ant task to create
>> some EJBs and I have found that this is dependent on IBM's was 5.1 jdk,
>> which is version 1.4.2.  I am on a Windows XP machine, so I have the
>> regular
>> windows cmd and also cygwin.  When I try to use gradle (even gradle -v) in
>> cygwin if my JAVA_HOME is set to the 1.4 JDK, I get the error:
>>
>> The java class could not be loaded.
>> java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError:
>> org/gradle/BootstrapMain (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
>>
>> This happens both with the current snapshot of gradle and the current svn
>> version of gradle, even if I build the source with the 1.4 jdk.
>>
>> In Windows cmd, both the current snapshot and the current svn built with
>> 1.4
>> jdk appear to work.  I can execute gradle -v and gradle clean runs
>> quickly,
>> but if I actually try to build something, gradle starts quickly and each
>> successive project configuration takes more time until eventually it runs
>> out of memory.  I've never used gradle in cmd so I guess it doesn't
>> surprise
>> me that it doesn't work, but how can I get gradle running with IBM's 1.4
>> JDK
>> in cygwin?
>>
>> Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.
>>
>
> As we use Java 5 features, Gradle can't run on a JDK 1.4 right now. There
> is a retroweaver project though which makes 1.5 bytecode 1.4 compatible. I
> know that the Groovy project is using this. I need to have a look into this
> or you might have. I would be cool to have a jdk1.4 compatible Gradle
> distribution.
>
> - Hans
>
>
>> -Jerod
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