Falling back to an earlier version if ant

[Aaron Fude]

Hi,

I have 1.6.0_12 and I need to compile my code to run with 1.5.0.17.

I use ant.

Is there a way to tell javac to fall back to an earlier version?
Alternatively, can I just tell ant with javac to use (if I have both
on my machine)?

An explicit example of either would be just great!

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I have 1.6.0_12 and I need to compile my code to run with 1.5.0.17.

I use ant.

Is there a way to tell javac to fall back to an earlier version?
Alternatively, can I just tell ant with javac to use (if I have both
on my machine)?

An explicit example of either would be just great!

Usually the source and target attributes are sufficient.

But if not then you can use the executable attribute (together
with fork="yes" !).

http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/javac.html

has it all.

Arne

 

[Lew]

Hi,

I have 1.6.0_12 and I need to compile my code to run with 1.5.0.17.

I use ant.

Is there a way to tell javac to fall back to an earlier version?
Alternatively, can I just tell ant with javac to use (if I have both
on my machine)?

-source, -target and -bootclasspath

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/javac/index.html>

 

[Roedy Green]

Is there a way to tell javac to fall back to an earlier version?
Alternatively, can I just tell ant with javac to use (if I have both
on my machine)?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jdk.html#MULTIPLE

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