SOE backward compatibility?

[LucStappaerts]

We have developed a server object extension referencing arcgis 10.2 assemblies. Can we deploy this soe to a customer running ArcGIS Server 10.1?

[ErinBrimhall]

Hi Luc,

I believe you will need to recompile your SOE against the older assemblies in order to deploy on the server running 10.1.

You might have gotten away with your deployment if the situation were reversed (10.1 SOE on 10.2 ArcGIS Server).

[LucStappaerts]

Erin,

Thanks for your reply

Compilation against the older libraries was indeed necessary. Luckily we had a setup with ArcGIS Server 10.1 and VS 2010 somewhere so we could do the compilation.

I wonder if you really need VS2010 to do the recompilation - maybe VS2012 will also do the job, haven't tried it out. In each case a new SOE project can only be done in VS2010.

Supporting different versions of ArcGIS Server turns out not to be that simple.

I think the same goes for a SOE to be installed on 10.2, such a SOE should be compiled against 10.2 libraries. Haven't tried it out though.