Porting java 1.5 source code to java 1.4 with ANT
Posted by rajg on September 9, 2008
SAP NetWeaver 6.4 runs with java 1.4. In order deploy my application that was built in java 1.5 on SAP NW 6.4 I needed to first compile it “-target” option from java compile “javac”. So I tried following ant build xml snippet:
<javac srcdir=“${source}” destdir=“${destination}” source=“1.5″ target=“1.4″ debug=“true” optimize=“true” />
But it didn’t work. After looking at http://www.masutti.ch/eel/index.html I found a trick to make to above snippet work with the following change:
<javac srcdir=“${source}” destdir=“${destination}” source=“1.5″ target=“jsr14″ debug=“true” optimize=“true” />
One should keep in mind that you cannot replace new classes from java 1.5 with this technique. If possible you can provide additional jars that work with 1.4 (For e.g. classes from javax.management.* package).
