Tomcat and java.version

[Andrew Pinski]

On Apr 9, 2004, at 13:19, Anthony Green wrote:

> gcj's java.version system property currently mirrors the GCC release
> version.  This can be surprising to some software that examines
> java.version.  In some cases it causes fatal errors.  For instance, the
> jakarta commons-lang package tries to convert java.version to a 
> floating
> point number, but values like "3.5-tree-ssa" really mess it up.


Looking at <http://java.sun.com/j2se/versioning_naming.html>, it looks 
like
jakarta is wrong here, in fact it was not wrong, a beta from Sun would 
not be able
to run jakarta at all.

▪ 	A separator is always used between different parts of the string so 
that ordering can be determined programmically. (For example, a version 
string of "1.3.1beta" is not acceptable. A version string of 
"1.3.1-beta" is acceptable.)


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski