Package does not work with JDK 5

Is there any reason not to build for 1.4 by default? That would ensure pretty much anything distributed by Ubuntu would be able to utilise ant.

> Is there any reason not to build for 1.4 by default? That would ensure pretty
> much anything distributed by Ubuntu would be able to utilise ant.

I'm not sure about 1.4, but we should not require 1.6. 1.5 compatibility sounds enough.

Ant itself is compiled correctly. I'm using both java6 and java5 from Sun, using "alternatives", and it works fine. The problem is with some libs included in Debian version. As a workaround, I commented out this code:

# Add the Xerces 2 XML parser in the Debian version
#if [ -z "$LOCALCLASSPATH" ] ; then
# LOCALCLASSPATH="/usr/share/java/xmlParserAPIs.jar:/usr/share/java/xercesImpl.jar"
#else
# LOCALCLASSPATH="/usr/share/java/xmlParserAPIs.jar:/usr/share/java/xercesImpl.jar:$LOCALCLASSPATH"
#fi

These are the jars which are incompatible with Java 1.5.x (JRE included, not only JDK). I commented this out and my builds are now working again.

fixes libxerces2-java. please could you check if that is enough to run ant on a 1.4 vm?

This bug was fixed in the package libxerces2-java - 2.9.1-2ubuntu2

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libxerces2-java (2.9.1-2ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source and target version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:09:46 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package ant - 1.7.0-6ubuntu3

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ant (1.7.0-6ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source and target version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:39:54 +0000

Problem is back 17 Oct. From log (even verbose) I am not able to say what class/jar causes this problem. To reproduce unzip attached zip, go into folder JavaApplication1 and run ant. Build will fail. Of course JDK 5 must on on PATH and JAVA_PATH, JAVA_HOME must be set to JDK 5 for ant. I use Sun JDK 5u16. Shall I reopen this issue or shall I file new one?

The current Tomcat 6 packages require "default-jre-headless | java6-runtime headless" so having it bytecoded for 1.6 is not a bug... I'll file a "support for 1.5" wishlist bug though, because it would still be nice to have.

This bug was fixed in the package libjaxp1.3-java - 1.3.04-3ubuntu2

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libjaxp1.3-java (1.3.04-3ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source and target version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:01:09 +0200

java-access-bridge (1.24.0-0ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Compile java files with -source 1.5.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:45:59 +0200

fixed in 1.7R1-1ubuntu3

closing the ant task again; libjaxp1.3-java is now built with -source 1.4 as well.

Debdiff for tomcat5.5
(targeting 1.5 because it fails to compile without patches if we target 1.4)

Debdiff for commons-daemon

Debdiff for libcommons-collections3

New debdiff for commons-daemon, closes the right bug.

Debdiff for libservlet2.4-java

This bug was fixed in the package junit - 3.8.2-1ubuntu2

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junit (3.8.2-1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Compile java files with -target 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:25:15 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package jsch - 0.1.37-3ubuntu2

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jsch (0.1.37-3ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:07:22 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package libjdepend-java - 2.9-4ubuntu2

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libjdepend-java (2.9-4ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:26:56 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package libcommons-net-java - 1.4.1-1ubuntu2

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libcommons-net-java (1.4.1-1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:22:01 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package javax-servletapi2.3 - 4.0-10ubuntu3

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javax-servletapi2.3 (4.0-10ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:16:19 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package libgnuinet-java - 1.1.1-3ubuntu2

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libgnuinet-java (1.1.1-3ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:10:11 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package libgnumail-java - 1.1.2-2ubuntu2

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libgnumail-java (1.1.2-2ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:06:18 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package libgnujaf-java - 1.1.1-4ubuntu2

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libgnujaf-java (1.1.1-4ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:02:10 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package libreadline-java - 0.8.0.1-8.1ubuntu1

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libreadline-java (0.8.0.1-8.1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:49:40 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package libcommons-collections3-java - 3.2.1-1ubuntu2

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libcommons-collections3-java (3.2.1-1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:58:11 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package libservlet2.4-java - 5.0.30-8ubuntu3

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libservlet2.4-java (5.0.30-8ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:45:28 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package libregexp-java - 1.4-4ubuntu2

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libregexp-java (1.4-4ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:41:26 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package liboro-java - 2.0.8a-4ubuntu2

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liboro-java (2.0.8a-4ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source version to 1.4. LP: #264808.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:37:24 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package tomcat5.5 - 5.5.26-3ubuntu3

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tomcat5.5 (5.5.26-3ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source and target version to 1.5 (LP: #264808)

 -- Thierry Carrez <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:47:15 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package commons-daemon - 1.0.2~svn20061127-9ubuntu2

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commons-daemon (1.0.2~svn20061127-9ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Set java source and target version to 1.4 (LP: #264808)

 -- Thierry Carrez <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:22:38 +0200

antlr (2.7.7-6ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Build a libantlr-java package, without dependency on a java runtime.
    Needed to bootstrap gcj without having a java runtime installed.
  * Build a libantlr-java-gcj package, replace cantlr with a shell script to use it.
  * Explicitely call javac with -source 1.4. LP: #264808.

I just got bitten by the Tomcat6 being compiled for JDK 1.6, for someone who is used to the standard distributions from http://tomcat.apache.org/ I lost quite a bit of time chasing down the reason.

It wasn't helped by the fact that in the file /etc/init.d/tomcat6 is the line:

JDK_DIRS="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-ibm"

which means that tomcat6 will attempt to use a 1.5 JDK if a 1.6 JDK isn't installed.

Tomcat 6 runs fine on JDK 1.5 and it would be helpful if the packaged version was compiled so that it would run against it.

Matthew: see bug 286427. This was fixed in Jaunty. Please followup on that bug if you think we should issue a stable release update to cover this bug in 8.10