Compiling Java code written for 1.5 to work with 1.4 JRE?

Question

I have a project that uses generics and a few Java 1.5/6 bits and pieces. Is it possible to compile this code to work on a system running a 1.4 JRE?

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Answer 1

Generics are implemented by type erasure so they should work before generics were introduced. However you would be unable to compile the code with an older version of the compiler (I don't know why you would want to do that)