Re: Plugin Compatibility -- WDSCI-L

Subject: Re: Plugin Compatibility
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 08:47:59 -0500
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On 8/23/2016 8:25 AM, Craig Richards wrote:

[ To recap, I’m on RDi 9.5.03, Java 8. I built a simple plugin for
inserting some text etc. I wanted / expected to be able to use the
same plugin on my colleagues machines (RDi 9.1.1, Java 7. ) and
hopefully just be copying the exported jar file to their plugin
directory.

Um, sorry, I've been out of this thread for a bit.

Are you compiling your plug-in with Java 8 or Java 7?

Java apps are forward compatible but not backwards compatible.

If you compile at Java 7, the code will (generally) work in Java 8.
If you compile at Java 8, the code will *NOT* work in Java 8.

RDi 9.1 uses Java 7 ... RDi 9.5 uses Java 8.

Are there errors other than class not found?

david

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