Incorrect bytecode version stamp

[Jan Tosovsky]

Dear All,

when building Apache Batik tools using Oracle JDK 7u80 (most recent free) to
ensure they will work on JDK 7, I am getting weird result (Win 10).

While in MANIFEST can be found 'created by' JDK 7, when that main class is
executed in JDK 7, executing of the main class fails because of unsupported
version (major.minor 52.0).

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.9.7
Created-By: 1.7.0_80-b15 (Oracle Corporation)
Implementation-Title: Batik SVG rasterizer
Implementation-Version: svn-trunk
Implementation-Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation (http://xmlgraph
ics.apache.org/batik/)
Main-Class: org.apache.batik.apps.rasterizer.Main
Build-Id: 20161220-223305-CET (Honza [Windows 8.1 6.3 amd64, Java 1.7.
0_80-b15])

I suspect this is Ant/compiler issue of incorrectly written version stamp
into class files. Or is there other explanation how JDK 7 can produce JDK 8
bytecode?

There is JDK8 installed on my PC as well, but both JAVA_HOME and PATH
variables point to the JDK7. Is it possible Ant could bypass this settings
internally? Is that MANIFEST 'created by' value reliable?

Thanks,

Jan




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[Stefan Bodewig]

Post by Jan Tosovsky
While in MANIFEST can be found 'created by' JDK 7, when that main class is
executed in JDK 7, executing of the main class fails because of unsupported
version (major.minor 52.0).

The "Created-by" reflects the JVM that is executing Ant. The class
version is determined by the javac that has been used which can be
different from the one of the JVM running Ant depending on your <javac>
task. For example if you use a forking javac it might be the first
javac.exe that's on the PATH.

Can you show us the <javac> task that is compiling the classes?

Stefan

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[Jan Tosovsky]

Post by Stefan Bodewig

Post by Jan Tosovsky
While in MANIFEST can be found 'created by' JDK 7, when that
main class is executed in JDK 7, executing of the main class
fails because of unsupported version (major.minor 52.0).

The "Created-by" reflects the JVM that is executing Ant. The class
version is determined by the javac that has been used which can be
different from the one of the JVM running Ant depending on your <javac>
task. For example if you use a forking javac it might be the first
javac.exe that's on the PATH.
Can you show us the <javac> task that is compiling the classes?

Silly me, I haven't executed 'clean' goal between my attempts so those
originally built classes (in JDK8) were never overwritten when later
creating jars in JDK7.

Jan


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