FileChannel incompatibility introduced between 6 and 7 (and possible compiler bug)

[David M. Lloyd]

On 07/26/2012 03:57 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 26/07/2012 19:44, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> Ran into a pretty ugly little issue just now.  My NIO framework has a
>> FileChannel subclass that it uses for certain tasks.  This works fine
>> on 7, but on 6 I get errors like this:
>>
>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/nio/channels/SeekableByteChannel
>>
> It sounds like you are compiling with 7 and running with 6, in which
> case you need to make sure to specify - bootclasspath when specifying
> -source and -target.

May not be an option for me, as I need to compile against certain 
classes only present in 7.  I'll probably have to stub them to make it 
work.  We shall see how it goes.
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- DML