On 04/25/2011 12:50 AM, Kris Jurka wrote:
> On 4/24/2011 9:23 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Kris Jurka wrote:
>>
>>> Integer.valueOf appeared in JDK 1.5 and we currently still support
>>> JDK 1.4. There's been talk of ditching 1.4 support, but that hasn't
>>> officially happened yet and isn't something we'd do for older
>>> driver releases.
>>
>> Would it be practical to do it in the JDBC4 build?
>
> In this case, yes, but not in general. findColumn is pretty localized, so
> duplicating it's code in an inherited class wouldn't be too bad.
>
>> On a related note, are we using the -target switch to build for the
>> lowest supported release (1.4 for JDBC3 and 1.6 for JDBC4)? If not,
>> would that be practical?
>
> No, the -target switch is really pretty useless for our purposes. We must
> build with the actual JDK we want to use. -target only affects the generated
> class files, but we need the correct API version to build against. Since we're
> implementing things like the Connection interface, the -target switch doesn't
> magically change the interface definition to the version in the original JDK.
Yeah, you have to use -bootclasspath to get the right rt.jar if you use -target.
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