I was wondering if anybody has experience in Java SDK for ArcSDE and backwards compatibility.
We currently use the Java 9.3 SDK (i.e. jpe_sdk.jar and jsde_sdk.jar) to read and write spatial data from/to ArcSDE. The manifest for this SDK is:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Specification-Title: ArcSDE Java API
Created-By: 1.4.2_12 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Specification-Version: 9.3
Specification-Vendor: ESRI
Name: com/esri/sde/sdk
Implementation-Version: Build
Implementation-Vendor: ESRI
We have not had any problems reading and writing spatial data from/to ArcSDE servers of versions 9.2, 9.3, 9.3 SP1 and 10 using this SDK.
We recently downloaded the Java SDK for ArcSDE 10 SP 2 and the version of the SDK seems to be 9.4 (as opposed to version 9.3 above). The manifest for this SDK is:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Implementation-Vendor: ESRI
Implementation-Version: Build
Specification-Vendor: ESRI
Name: com/esri/sde/sdk
Created-By: 1.6.0_16 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Specification-Title: ArcSDE Java API
Specification-Version: 9.4
We wonder whether this new SDK (i.e. version 9.4) for ArcSDE 10 SP2 is backwards compatible with older versions of ArcSDE?
In other words, have you seen any problems in reading and writing spatial data from/to the ArcSDE servers of versions 9.2, 9.3, 9.3 SP1 and 10 using this new SDK? We are wondering whether or not we should expect any problems if we move to this new SDK.
Kind Regards,
/Kenneth
