com.mindprod.common11

Class VersionCheck

java.lang.Object

com.mindprod.common11.VersionCheck

public final class VersionCheck
extends java.lang.Object

Check that Java version is sufficiently recent.

Since:

1997-03-23

Version:

1.7 2006-03-04

Author:

Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static boolean	isJavaVersionOK(int wantedMajor, int wantedMinor, int wantedBugFix) Ensures Java runtime version e.g.
static boolean	isJavaVersionOK(int wantedMajor, int wantedMinor, int wantedBugFix, java.awt.Container container) use in a paint routine if Java version is not ok, usually tested statically.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

isJavaVersionOK

public static boolean isJavaVersionOK(int wantedMajor,
                      int wantedMinor,
                      int wantedBugFix)

Ensures Java runtime version e.g. 1.1.7 is sufficiently recent. Based on code by Dr. Tony Dahlman

Parameters:

wantedMajor - java major version e.g. 1

wantedMinor - Java minor version e.g. 6

wantedBugFix - Java bugfix version e.g. 9, there is no parm for the _14 level. Sun suffers a phobia of changing versions, so uses microversions.

Returns:

true if JVM version running is equal to or more recent than (higher than) the level specified.

isJavaVersionOK

public static boolean isJavaVersionOK(int wantedMajor,
                      int wantedMinor,
                      int wantedBugFix,
                      java.awt.Container container)

use in a paint routine if Java version is not ok, usually tested statically.

Parameters:

wantedMajor - java major version e.g. 1

wantedMinor - Java minor version e.g. 1

wantedBugFix - Java bugfix version e.g. 7

container - container to add an error message component.

Returns:

true if version is ok