[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Compiling for older version of java

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How do you package your product, do you use an ANT-File?

Tom

joel schrieb:
> Ed Merks wrote:
>
> > Joel,
>
> > I didn't think that Java 6.0 changed the class version levels again 
> > like Java 5.0 did.  Java 5.0 changed the language significantly so 
> > there is additional information about generics that needs to be 
> > encoded in the ..class files, but I didn't think Java 6.0 had any such 
> > impact.  So my suspicion would be you are actually trying to run with 
> > a 1.4 JRE when you are getting the error you reported.  You could try 
> > setting your language level to 1.4 to confirm that...
>
> Ed,
>
> Thanks, but I am positive the OSX box has java version 1.5.0_07 as 
> confirmed by running java -version.  I just tried setting my Compiler 
> Compliance level to 1.4, but I get the same result.
>
> --Joel


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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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