Pregunta de entrevista en Bloomberg: Would Java Bytecode generated by Java 7 work on a JVM made to function on Java 1.0?

Bloomberg

Would Java Bytecode generated by Java 7 work on a JVM made to function on Java 1.0?

Anónimo

10 de feb de 2014

No, it can't. JVMs are not forward compatible, they can only run bytecodes generated by current or previous versions.

Anónimo

2 de mar de 2013

Yes.. Java Bytecode didn't change, Java syntax did!