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JDK 1.1 and Eclipse

Gustavo Adolpho Bonesso
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Joined: May 11, 2002
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Is it possible to work with JDK 1.1 with Eclipse? The objective is to create applets that don`t need any plug-ins to work...
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Gustavo Adolpho Bonesso<br />SCJP1.4
Pradeep bhatt
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Eclipse requires version 1.3 or 1.4 of a Java 2 Standard Edition JRE.


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Dan Kehn
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I don't know for certain, however let me share a few random musings...
Eclipse was written such that the JDK it needs to run and JDK that the Java Development Tools (JDT) can support are decoupled. That's why you can start Eclipse on JDK 1.3 and create Java applications for JDK 1.4 without conflict.
So while I'll readily admit I've never used any pre-1.3 JDK, it might work. And besides the above, why do I think so? Well, the Java Preferences list Generated classfile compatibility, including 1.1. That strongly suggests at least the compiler will accept it (the online help offers no further clues). You can always try installing it as a recognized JRE (Preferences > Java > Installed JREs) although I'd be tad surprised if the debugger works since it is more version dependent than the compiler.
-- Dan


Co-author of <a href="http://www.jdg2e.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse</a>, 2nd Edition<br />(Yahoo group <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JDG2E/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JDG2E</a>)
 
 
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