Javac default version

[Joe Darcy]

... and when a new release first comes out, the previous release is 
always more widely used.

-Joe

Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> 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)
>