What lowest java version should I target

[davidb]

I am testing some code I want to release on a “test” sage server. I took a windows machine that didn’t have sage installed on it and used the windows installer to install it. This worked fine expect for not setting the java heap to 400H. I don’t know why someone wouldn’t want that as the default now but that is another issue.

I put my release candidate test code on the sage server. My code is not in a plugin so I am using sagex.
The first issue I ran into is I compiled the code on my development machine with java 1.8.0_141 and when running the test machine I got a unsupported major, minor version error message.. The windows installer put java 1.7.0_79 on. A quick search on stackoverflow says I should just install the jdk for an older version of java on my development system and compile it with it. I can do that but my understanding is if someone already had java on their machine and then used the windows installer it wouldn’t update the java. What should I pick for the lowest version of java so I can install that jdk to build with? Is the version installed with the windows installer a reasonable lower limit?

My application starts with an exe but then runs some java code. I am programmatically building a batch file up with the appropriate directory names setup from prior information a user has set. And then executes the batch file. The batch is like this:

"java -classpath .;"c:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV\SageTV\JARs\sagex-api.jar";"c:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV\SageTV\JARs\phoenix.jar";log4j-1.2.15.jar;gson-2.3.1.jar;.\ GetSageMedia c:\SageRemote\img server1"

The java code is using phoenix to get the FanartArtifact. I check first that phoenix is installed by making sure the phoenix.jar is in the jar directory but just this morning I discovered there is a phoenix lite. If a user had this instead of the regular phoenix how can I handle this?

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[jusjoken]

I would suggest you still use a plugin to do the install and then have it depend on sagex and phoenix etc. so you know for sure what the user has on the system.

k

[davidb]

I can't go the plugin approach as the majority of my code is in c# and not java.

Originally Posted by jusjoken

I would suggest you still use a plugin to do the install and then have it depend on sagex and phoenix etc. so you know for sure what the user has on the system.

k

[jusjoken]

Plugins can be used to install nearly anything and have the added advantage of specifying dependencies such as java versions, sage versions etc.

Take a look at the docs here....

Look at some examples in the repo here....

k