I am facing an strange issue. I developed java web app in java 6 and when I hosted it on server, its shows error since its java 5 server. I have used annotations, hibernate, rest API in my code and now I want to transform my code with java 5 environment.
is it possible to do so? if yes HOW? Or is there any other workaround for this problem? Please let me know.
@all: This is the error i am getting:
I am not sure what your build process is but you need to compile your code for a specific target like java 1.5.
You will run into problems if you are using java 1.6 specific libraries. You will know this when you try and run your code/webapp.
I hope this helps.
You'll have to look at the individual errors and figure out what is missing.
The JPA annotations were already part of Java EE 5, so if "hibernate" is causing problems, it either means you are not in fact running on Java EE 5, or you're using hibernate-specific annotations. The REST annotations were indeed added in Java EE 6, but can be used in a Java EE 5 environment relatively easily by adding a JAR with the API as well as the implementation (e.g. Apache Jersey) to the app's class path.
BTW, there's some confusion here concerning Java SE vs. Java EE. You're clearly talking about Java EE features, but there is a big difference between Java SE (which most people think about when you just say "Java") and Java EE.
From your post, it seems you're using Java EE 6 features in a Java EE 5 environment. If your app. server doesn't support such features at its core level, such as sing Servlet 3.0 features in a Servlet 2.5 environment, then you're out of luck.
However, when using features that are libraries, like Hibernate, you can get away using it in a Java EE 5 environment.
Java 6 as a language remains the same as Java 5, however, libraries have changed. Likewise, using JRE classes and methods that are in 6, won't work in 5.
Update: from your screenshot, I see that you're using Java 6 compiled classes on an older version of Tomcat. Compile them for Java 5.
You are trying to run classes compiled against Java 6 on Java 5 (Tomcat 5.x uses Java 5).
