I went back and looked at the postgres driver again and sure enough there is a difference. I was using a driver labeled JDBC4, which only works with jdk 1.6. I switched back to a jdbc3 driver and jdk 1.5 is working now.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 8, 2008 5:43:57 AM (GMT-0700) America/Denver Subject: Re: Does latest trunk require Java 1.6? I confirm it runs here with Sun jdk 1.5 (On Windows XpSp2 ands Ubuntu 8.04 LTW) Jacques From: "Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You could have extra class files cached from previous runs. Certainly > doesn't look like a postgres jar file problem specifically. > > Catalina is the favourite for temporary class files so possibly try this > first: > ant clean-catalina > and if you browse through the build.xml file you'll find a few others > that get run when using: > ant clean-all > Be WARNED though "clean-all" is a little more aggressive in that it > clears the derby database folder along with lots of other runtime files. > Really puts you back to a clean checkout so make sure you've got your > data backed up if required, although it won't delete your postgres data :-) > > Ray > > > Vince M. Clark wrote: >> I don't see anything on Postgres jdbc downloads that would make any >> difference. The latest driver just says it requires Java 1.4 >> or later. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "BJ Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 5:11:25 PM (GMT-0700) America/Denver >> Subject: Re: Does latest trunk require Java 1.6? >> >> sorry did not see the bottom >> did you do a >> ant clean >> and >> then >> ant run-install >> >> Vince M. Clark sent the following on 8/7/2008 2:57 PM: >>> Surely this is not the case. But I am trying to start OfBiz using 1.5 and >>> getting the following: >>> >>> 2008-08-07 16:37:22,529 (main) [ GenericDelegator.java:217:INFO ] Delegator >>> "default" initializing helper "localpostgres" for >>> entity group "org.ofbiz". >>> 2008-08-07 16:37:22,538 (main) [ GenericDelegator.java:234:INFO ] Doing >>> database check as requested in entityengine.xml with >>> addMissing=true >>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad >>> version number in .class file >>> at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) >>> at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620) >>> at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124) >>> >>> >>> I was running Java 6 on Ubuntu but it was causing Eclipse fits and crashing >>> all the time. So I removed Java 6 and reinstalled 5. >>> Now I can't get OfBiz to start. I can build with no errors, but when I try >>> to start it gives me the above error. >>> >> >> >
