In what cases a legacy Java code would not compile on newer versions

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Published on 2010-06-08T05:41:53Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 5:42 UTC
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Java is striving to be backward compatible. It is to such an extent that it crippled its generics for that (off-topic).

But are there situations when old code would not compile on newer versions (more importantly Java 5, and the forthcoming Java 7)

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