Do I have to recompile my application when I upgrade a third party jar?

Question

I have a java application that uses some third party API. The third party jar files change fairly frequently because of all kinds of patches, but the API itself does not cha

Answer 1

java is not C++: when you use a library you don't import a single line of code. You just load the library on request and use that. For this reason you don't need to recompile your code :)