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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:32:39 +0200
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On 10-07-2012 20:26, Lew wrote:
> Sanny wrote:
>> Well I had a program/ Applet in Java 1.2 I want to migrate the code to Java 1.6
> 
> It should be forward compatible. 
> 

I think the proper way to say this is:
The newer version is backwards compatible