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On Mon, 08 Dec 1997 10:44:32 -0800, Andrew Bennett
<abennett@borland.com> wrote:

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>Derek Cribbs wrote:
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>> I was wondering if anyone knows how borland is handling patches to fix
>> bugs and also how to update JDK in Jbuilder. It ships with JDK 1.1.3 and
>> JDK 1.1.5 is out now. How are they addressing these issues?
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>We haven't announced anything yet.  When something is available, I'll
>post it in jbuilder.announce.  So, you may want to watch that group.
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>JDK 1.1.4 and 1.1.5 are just bug fixes above what we have.  As a result,
>integrating a new JDK would take a significant amount of QA effort to
>ensure that all the Java code we are using still works.  And if problems
>are found, research into those problems and the creation of a work
>around just lengthens the cycle.  Repeat until finished.
>
>As such, the code you create in JBuilder should run in 1.1.5 already,
>assuming 1.1.5 has no new bugs in it that break your code.
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Andrew,

I downloaded JDK1.1.5 and installed it on my machine and found that
since they fixed some of their bugs (for me, notable the Print ones on
win32), running applications in this environment broke some of my
workarounds (using the same example, placement workarounds for drawing
graphics on the print context).  So I can definitely see your point in
making sure that you test a new JDK thoroughly before updating.

However, this seems to bring up an interesting problem.  How do we
control which JVM (or even version of JDK 1.1) our clients are using?
If I distribute an application which works well on JBuilder's JVM and
JDK 1.1.3, and my client has JDK 1.1.5 installed (or vice versa), and
implementation details require some workarounds, how can we make sure
that our application still works?

We certainly can't require that one version of the JDK is used over
another as there may be other applications the client is using which
require the other version.  Is the solution to include a classes.zip
with all applications and reset classpaths with a batch file/script
like the one you guys include with JBuilder?

Thanks,

Noah