On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:47 PM, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20/06/2008, Gary Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Isn't using a new package name the safest thing to do? >> >> What if: My application depends on lang1 (pre-Java 5 dependency) through a >> 3rd party dependency. I want to write my code with lang2 (Java 5 enabled). >> If lang2 has deprecations removed, then the classpath order matters: lang1 >> has to come first or the 3rd party dependency code will get a >> NoSuchMethodException. > > Surely if the old class is not found in the first jar in the > classpath, subsequent jars will also be searched for the class? > > So CLASSPATH=lang2,lang1 should work for both cases - or am I missing > something?
What about in the case of a webapp, though? You can't really control the classpath order (unless you change the jar names I guess). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
