Well, I hope you guys don't use an obfuscator :-) What I would do is first check CVS (or whatever you use) and see what changes were made in the class. If you find that these changes are to dramatic then you can get the class from the clients application, decompile it (google java decompiler) fix the code, recompile and send them the fixed class. Ugly yes! But it should work.
Be good. Ron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tal Achituv Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 5:14 PM To: 'Ron Gidron' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [OT] Java linkage Yes, When I wrote the mail I was confused myself - as there is no real "link" in java... here's the problem: I have to supply a patch for a software build 18, and am currently working on build 22 of the same software. I wonder if I can just give them the class from the b22 and put it instead the patch requiring class of the b18... Now I need to wait until runtime to see if this class really fits... :-) seems like I'm not the first to hit this problem... as in the C world you simply "link"... (I know the class from b22 compiles... I don't know if it "links" with all the others correctly... [lets say a method signature changed])... Do you know if there is a "solution" in the industry?? Tal. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Gidron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:04 PM To: 'Tal Achituv' Subject: RE: [OT] Java linkage How do you mean **links**? AFAIK Class files are independent and are executed as such by the JVM, There is no traditional linkage done in Java and there is no linker. The JVM is responsible to download all the referred classes that you class refers to AT RUNTIME... I hope I understood the question well, please feel free to ask again or elaborate your previous question. Regards Ron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tal Achituv Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 4:00 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [OT] Java linkage Hi all Is there a tool / method to check if a compiles java object (class) links correctly? Any thoughts? Thanks, Tal Achituv. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
