[ome-devel] Ice 3.4 support added in develop

[Josh Moore]

We've just merged support for Ice 3.4[0] to the "develop" branch[1]. Now, by default, the build looks for the ice 3.4 executables. If you would like to use ice 3.3, instead add:

  ice.compatibility=3.3

to etc/local.properties. If you forget, you'll see a warning like this:

BUILD FAILED
build.xml:129: The following error occurred while executing this line:
components/antlib/resources/global.xml:134: The following error occurred while executing this line:
components/blitz/build.xml:27: The following error occurred while executing this line:
components/blitz/build.xml:225: WRONG ICE VERSION!

                        slice2java version = 3.3.1
                        Expected version = 3.4

Total time: 2 minutes 9 seconds

The intent is that all of OMERO can be built with either version. Further, we assume that an Ice 3.3 client can talk to an Ice 3.4 server and the other way around, though we'll be testing this more now that the branch is merged.

Let us know if you have any difficulties.

Cheers,
~Josh.


[0] https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/pull/31
[1] https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/tree/develop