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by W.B. Garvelink :: Rate this Message:

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It's an additional deployment-time compatibility check. In this case,
it doesn't add much benefit because JDK 1.4 will fail to load "-target
1.5" classes anyway. In other cases, it may conceivably give you a
fail-fast at deployment that would have been a NoSuchMethodError a
week later.

Barend


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Holger Brands <hbrands@...> wrote:

> As far as I know, we currently do not include an
> Execution-Environment in the manifest.
>
> I guess, we would have something like this in the manifest:
> Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: J2SE-1.5
>
> What advantages/disadvantages has the
> specification of an execution environment?
>
> For example, the spring jars do not contain an execution environment.
>
> Thanks,
> Holger
>
>>
>> Please do not forget to fix the OSGi Manifests Execution-Environment
>> accordingly then :)
>>
>>
>> Holger Brands wrote:
>> >
>> > Hey guys,
>> >
>> > I started to work on this:
>> > I removed the 'java14' target from our build,
>> > added missing @Override annotations,
>> > removed unnecessary casts and simplified
>> > calls to Arrays.asList.
>> >
>> > Just FYI,
>> > Holger
>> >
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