<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">I've already run across one place where this is true. HotSpot builds<br>the servicability agent with -source 1.4 -target 1.4. Why? Because<br>of incompatibilies between its implementation and the com.sun.jdi<br>interfaces which require Comparable<T> not Comparable.<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>I don't think that is the reason for the 1.4. But someone closer to this SA project would need to clarify this.</div><div><br></div><div>The reason was so that the SA could potentially operate on an older JDK as I recall.</div><div>I suspect 1.4 settings should have been changed to 1.5 in 1.6, and maybe 1.6 in 1.7.</div><div><br></div><div>-kto</div><div><br></div></body></html>