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Re: JDK 1.7 new features

From	Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: JDK 1.7 new features
Date	2011-07-30 23:57 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:47:37 -0700, /Roedy Green/:

> ANT with javac for 1.7 is issuing a warning message on every compile:
>
>    [javac] warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in
> conjunction with source 1.5
>
> Any thoughts on why it is complaining?

Likely because classes get compiled compatible with the Java 5 
format, but then against the Java 7 APIs which may result in linkage 
against APIs not present in Java 5, therefore lead to failures when 
run in such JRE version.

-- 
Stanimir

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