java8兼容java7,java 7和java之间的源代码兼容性8用于重载功能

I have created a single jar for Java 7 & 8 for a JDBC driver (using -source/-target compile options). However, I am having difficulty compiling applications that use the new/overloaded methods in the ResultSet interface:

//New in Java 8

updateObject(int columnIndex, Object x, SQLType targetSqlType)

// Available in Java 7

updateObject(int columnIndex, Object x, int targetSqlType)

Note that SQLType is a new interface introduced in Java 8.

I have compiled the driver using Java 8, which worked fine. However, when any application using the driver accesses the method updateObject(int, Object, int) from Java 7, it gets a compilation error saying “class file for java.sql.SQLType not found”, although the application is not using SQLType. I think this is because Java looks at all the overloaded methods to determine the most specific one, and when doing so it can not access the new updateObject method in Java 8 (as SQLType is not defined in Java 7). Any idea how I can resolve this issue?

Note that the updateObject method has a default implementation in the ResultSet interface in Java 8 --- so I can not even use a more generic type instead of SQLType in the new method. In that case any application that uses the new method gets a compilation error saying updateObject is ambiguous.

解决方案

You can't use something compiled in Java 8 (for instance) in a lower version (say Java 7). You will get something like Unsupported major.minor version.... You need to use two JARs, one for version 1.7 and the other one for version 1.8. Eventually, the one for the 1.7 can't have that SQLType if it's not supported on that JDK; on the other hand, you are encouraged to maintain the overloaded version when you do the 1.8 version.

Notice that this doesn't have nothing to do with backwards compatibility.