Old projects compatible with Java 7

java backwards-compatibility java-7 java-6
rebecca picture rebecca · Jul 29, 2011 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

My old projects use Java 6 (1.6), and I don't know when I update (Java 7), they can run fine ?

Answer

linuxbuild picture linuxbuild · Dec 4, 2011

There is an official list of known incompatibilities between java 6 and java 7 from Oracle (including descriptions of both binary and source-level incompatibilities in public APIs).

Also you can look at the independent analysis of API changes in the Java API Tracker project: http://abi-laboratory.pro/java/tracker/timeline/jre/

The report is generated by the japi-compliance-checker tool.

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