Re: can Mauve help me test a PersonalJava implementation?

[Steven Schwarz <schwarz at solekai dot com>]

Thanks for the suggestion to make jars -- that will definitely help
make things more convenient, if I can get around something else.
Here's the something else:

If I compile with a JDK 1.4.2 or 1.5.0 I end up with class files with
major.minor version 46.0.  If I attempt to run them with a
PersonalJava or JDK 1.1.8 VM, I run up against the limitation that
those VMs are only empowered to accept classes whose versions are in
the range 45.0 .. 45.65535, i.e. strictly before version 46.0.  JDKs
1.2.2 and 1.3.1 will produce class files with versions before 46.0,
but unfortunately, cannot compile Mauve, as I explained in my previous
posting.

So I guess my question about whether I can use Mauve in the
environment I need to is made equivalent to whether I can find a
compiler that will compile Mauve producing classes with version
strictly before 46.0.  Any suggestions for such a compiler?  I've only
ever used Sun (or blackdown) JDKs.  Will Jikes help?

Thanks,
sts

On 29-Apr-2005 Thomas Zander wrote:
>  On Friday 29 April 2005 00:52, Steven Schwarz wrote:
> > I've been tasked with confirming the claim made by a PersonalJava VM
> > vendor that their implementation passes the Mauve suite.
>  
>  The trick is that you _run_ it agains the target JVM.  What you compile it 
>  with is irrelevant.
>  
>  I suggest you type 
>     JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5.0 ant jars
>  or similar to produce the jar.
>  After that you can just run the test suite using the compiled classes.
>  
>  ps. I noticed that the mauve suite again does not compile against an 1.5 
>  compiler. (enum problems and stuff like that) I'll try to fix them again 
>  later today. :}
>  
>  -- 
>  Thomas Zander