Can Java just shoot me?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 16:40:42 UTC 2007
Chris G wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:03:45PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> We have found that the version number of the JRE has far more to do with
>> whether Smiley (the name of the telescope) will run on a particular browser
>> or not than the platform. We test many versions from 1.4.2 on up, and there
>> are too many version-specific hacks to be at all funny.
>>
> I had this problem in reverse, we have an Oracle forms applet at work
> and it insisted on having JRE version 1.4.2_06 and rejected any other
> version. I had to patch the applet to make it accept a later 1.4.2
> version that it actually works with perfectly well.
>
>
> So much for Java being 'platform independent'! :-)
First, version dependence has nothing to do with platform independence,
but if the applet worked with the check removed it wasn't a dependency
at all - just a dumb applet checking something that wasn't necessary.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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