Bug#314364: tomcat4 - does not work with jdk1.3

[Arnaud Vandyck]

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:07:45 +0200, 
Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix@debian.org> wrote: 

> Looking around for the "Unsupported major.minor" error message turned up
> that this was for classes compiled with jdk 1.4 which are trying to be
> loaded by jdk 1.3 or earlier.
> Installing blackdown jdk 1.4 packages (which need an "unstable" dist line in
> apt sources.list, other dists don't have them) makes the error go away.
> Off course, there is still the missing -webapps startup issue then, but
> that's another bug (which has been filed by others already)
>
> Since tomcat dependencies state jdk 1.3 is sufficient, those dependencies
> are clearly wrong :)

Yep, you are right, we shouldn't mention jdk 1.3

Also, jdk1.4 from blackdown is not really unstable. If you want, you can
also install IBM's or Sun's JDK (1.4, I'm not sure Sun's JDK1.5 will
work with tomcat4).

FYI, I'm working on tomcat5...

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