On 8 April 2016 12:43:56 BST, Lyallex <lyal...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 8 April 2016 at 12:31, Violeta Georgieva <miles...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 2016-04-08 14:28 GMT+03:00 Lyallex <lyal...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Apache Tomcat 7.0.42 running under jsvc against jdk1.7.0.45 >>> on 64 bit Ubuntu Linux 12.10 built and deployed with Ant in Eclipse >>> JUNO set to 1.7 compliance >>> >>> Please don't moan at me for using JSP scriptlets, I'm just doing >some >>> throwaway prototyping so save the bandwidth. Thank You >>> >>> I have been switching on Strings in 1.7 projects for a while now, I >>> use it in application classes running on the above with no problems >at >>> all. >>> >>> This morning I tried switching on Strings in jsp and got the >following >>> compiler error >>> >>> org.apache.jasper.JasperException Unable to compile class for JSP >>> etc etc >>> Cannot switch on a value of type String for source level below 1.7 >... >>> >>> Hmm, interesting >>> >>> Configured Jasper to compile against 1.7 and it all worked fine >>> >>> It seems a little strange that running Tomcat against 1.7 wouldn't >>> automatically configure Jasper to compile against 1.7 ... doesn't it >? >>> >>> Or does it? >>> >>> I'm sure there is a good reason, I just can't think of it :-( >>> >> >> This behavior is correct. Check this >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/jasper-howto.html >> >> compilerSourceVM - What JDK version are the source files compatible >with? >> (Default value: 1.6) >> compilerTargetVM - What JDK version are the generated files >compatible >> with? (Default value: 1.6) >> >> Regards, >> Violeta > >Well I'm sure it is ... but you miss the point entirely I'm afraid > >I'll try again > >I said > >" It seems a little strange that running Tomcat against 1.7 wouldn't > automatically configure Jasper to compile against 1.7 ... doesn't it" > >I'm not sure how you interpret this statement as an assertion that >the behavior is incorrect. > >Once again. > >Why is it that when Tomcat is run against Java 1.7 and obviously >interprets classes >written in 1.7 correctly Jasper isn't configure to compile at 1.7 >compliance level.
Jasper is configured to default to the minimum Java version required by the version of the JSP specification it implements. Mark > >It's just a question, I found it interesting. > >Is that OK > >Lyallex > > >>> >> >>> Lyallex >>> >>> >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >>> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
