Java debugging

[Andrew Overholt]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:55 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Jerry James wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>  I take your point.  Does simply rebuilding that RPM fix this problem?
> >> Rebuilding that RPM fails:
> >>
> >>     [javac] /home/jamesjer/rpmbuild/BUILD/axis-1_2_1/src/org/apache/axis/i18n/ProjectResourceBundle.java:363:
> >> clearCache() in org.apache.axis.i18n.ProjectResourceBundle cannot
> >> override clearCache() in java.util.ResourceBundle; overridden method
> >> is static final
> >>     [javac]     public static void clearCache()
> >>     [javac]                        ^
> > 
> > Oh, great.  :-(
> > 
> > That's an incompatible change from Java 1.5 to 1.6.
> > 
> > Java 1.6 has a final method clearCache(), 1.5 doesn't:
> > 
> > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html
> > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html
> 
> So someone has noticed that shipping a 1.6'ish JVM isn't necessarily 
> going to work for everyone who needs to run current java applications?

Since OpenJDK is >= 1.6 (ignoring gcj and other GNU Classpath-based
JVMs), I'm not sure if there's a better solution.  Is there?

Andrew