Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:24:50 +0200 From: Mark Evenson <mark.evenson@gmx.at> To: Michael Conlen <m@obmail.net> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removal of Java 1.1 and 1.2 support in the ports tree Message-ID: <470335B2.2060109@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <4A6D516D-0C49-478B-8060-83EC012E6C29@obmail.net> References: <20071001100936.GA10202@rv-laptop> <fdt2av$a6g$1@sea.gmane.org> <20071002211357.GA48667@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <4A6D516D-0C49-478B-8060-83EC012E6C29@obmail.net>
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Michael Conlen wrote: [...] > > If someone needs it for this reason there's always the option of doing > what I do when I need to test compatibility with Windows 95, install a > virtual machine with the old version of FreeBSD on it to test with. It's not so much about testing compatibility: it's about generating the bytecode in the first place. The Sun jdk-1.1 compiler can produce some "interesting" bytecode that will pass the Microsoft VM verifier, whereas post-jdk-1.2 compilers producing classfiles that should be compatible (via the appropiate compiler switches, and making sure only classes that existed in jdk1.1 are referenced), are actually rejected. I never really tracked down the nature of the deviations, mainly because trying to figure out the behavior of the closed-source Microsoft VM seemed like a losing proposition. -- <Mark.Evenson@gmx.at> "[T]his is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into."
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