Re: What does volatile guarantee?

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:15:42 -0500
Message-ID:
<hlh87u$djj$1@news.albasani.net>
Mike Schilling wrote:

Lew wrote:

Lars Enderin wrote:

The fontshower applet alone is enough to turn me off. I says:
Sorry, you need Java 1.5+ to run this Applet.
I have Java 1.6!

Lew wrote:

Why is that a problem? You meet the requirement.

Mike Schilling wrote:

But the message says that he doesn't. Perhaps he has a 1.6 JDK
installed, but the JRE used by the browser is only at 1.4.

That's not what the message says. It says that he has Java 6 and
doesn't even mention a JDK. It also doesn't actually say that he has
a problem, only that the applet's requirement turns him off, an
emotional response.


I read it differently: that the applet issues the error message "Sorry, you
need Java 1.5+ to run this Applet", but this makes no sense to Lars because
he has Java 1.6.


That's how I read it, too, although both of us had to infer to make that
interpretation. Especially because that objection doesn't make sense.
According to that interpretation, Lars's system meets the requirement.
Leaving the question, "Why is that a problem?"

--
Lew

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