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Nikolaos:

No.  And if you are doing things "normally", what I'm about to
describe won't be any more work then what you are already doing.

Background
JDK 1.1.6_Borland is JDK 1.1.6 with a handful (less then 3 that time)
of fixes that we made and delivered to Javasoft but that didn't get
implemented in time for 1.1.6 but that we needed.  Also there are our
hooks to allow our debugger to patch in, but those are isolated and
you really can't get to them at runtime outside the IDE.

You may have noticed that there is no JDK 1.1.6_Borland JRE and that
the redistributibles that we have are the 1.1.6 stuff.

What this all means is that you already are (or should be) doing add'l
testing with whatever JRE you are deploying with.

Remember, I'm paid to be pessisimstic.  You should really deploy with
1.1.7, IMO, to take advantage of changes made in 1.1.7 to make JFC
happier.  This does not mean you can go with 1.1.6 if you like (you
are, of course, responsible for guaranteeing a good experience for
your users and if 1.1.6 is good enough, great).

If you work with the 2.01x update, you are seeing JFC 1.1 in use with
JDK 1.1.6.

What you really end up doing is checking on the BugParade when you
come up against differences between your 1.1.6 and 1.1.7 experiences. 
At least you'll know if there is a fix, and you'll be forwarned if
what you thought was a bug in the new JDK is really how it was
"supposed to work" but was broken in 1.1.6.

-Rich

Nikolaos Giannopoulos wrote:
> 
> So off the bat does this rule out using 1.1.6_Borland with JFC 1.1???  (Minor
> bugs aside)  I guess I'll probably find out before you reply.  It would be nice
> to know what you think though<g>.
> 
> --Nikolaos
> 
> Richard Wilkman wrote:
> 
> > Kreg:
> >
> > In my copy of the *shipping* JFC 1.1 it says it needs fixes in 1.1.5
> > or greater and does assume (where it's doing all the settings) 1.1.7
> > is what you have.
> >
> > The reality is that a lot of fixes that JFC 1.1 needs live in JDK
> > 1.1.7.  Now, if you don't hit those bugs, great!  You'll want to be
> > real familiar with searching on the Bug Parade at JDC, though.
> >
> > -Rich
> >
> > Kreg Holgerson wrote:
> > >
> > > In the instructions for the JBuilder update for JFC 1.1 (javax), the
> > > following is stated:  "The documentation for JFC 1.1 indicates that it only
> > > works with JDK 1.1.7 or greater."
> > >
> > > However, when I look at the Swing 1.1 readme.txt file I find: "This Swing
> > > release relies on bug fixes first released in JDK 1.1.5."
> > >
> > > Does anyone know which are the correct JDKs that can be used with the new
> > > JBLC-X and Swing 1.1 components?
> >
> > --
> >
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> > Rich Wilkman
> > Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
> > Borland JBuilder Team
> >
> > If you see something that looks like an opinion up there,
> > it's mine and mine alone.
> >
> > Mail sent to me from the newsgroups won't bounce but will
> > be ignored.  If I have time, I'll respond, but you  have
> > a better chance if you confine your posts to the newsgroups
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Rich Wilkman
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Borland JBuilder Team

If you see something that looks like an opinion up there,
it's mine and mine alone.

Mail sent to me from the newsgroups won't bounce but will
be ignored.  If I have time, I'll respond, but you  have
a better chance if you confine your posts to the newsgroups
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