Javac default version

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Narayana,

If you're compiling against the classes for Java 6, -target 6 is the 
right default.   Anyone wanting to compile for the Java 5 platform 
should set -target 1.5 and should also set a matching bootclasspath, so 
that they don't accidentally use API only available in Java 6.   That 
would not be reasonable for the OpenJDK compiler.

-- Jon G


Narayana Rallabandi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any specific reason why the default compile target being set 
> to JDK 1.6 (com.sun.tools.javac.jvm.Taget)? I think still lot of users 
> are of JDK 1.5 only. It will be useful for them so that they do not 
> need to set the -target option every time.
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Narayanaa
> Open ESB Community (http://open-esb.org)

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