tm+ said:
Is developing an application in JDK 1.5 a good idea, while the
library's i'm using probably weren't made in jdk 1.5 but in 1.4?
I tend to be rather conservative. Most of my clients are only now
trying 1.5 projects - one still has build problems that prevent a 1.5
build unless he uses the -source 1.4 directive.
There are test projects running against 1.5 at most of my clients, for
the 'next release' of their apps, but I do not expect to see 1.5
deployed for real for a while. (Perhaps six months until it is on all
of the desktops, and perhaps six months after that until it is ok to
code against it.)
Amusingly, it appears that we have the last version of Java deployed,
all of the apps tested against it, and code that requires it just about
the time that the new version ships.
Scott