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        <h1> Compatability and Versions </h1>
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        <h2>BeanShell Compatability and Versions</h2>

        BeanShell 3.x (currently in development on the project's main branch)
        targets Java 8 at runtime, and building it from source requires JDK 8
        or newer.
        <p></p>

        As of BeanShell 2.1.0 the 2.x branch requires a minimum of Java 6 to run,
        for backwards compatibility purposes. Earlier BeanShell releases (1.3.x and
        2.0 beta releases through 2.0b5) supported Java versions back to 1.1.x, with
        certain features only available in later versions:
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            <li><b>Java 1.1</b> Basic BeanShell Interpreter. If the javax.swing package is
                supplied in the classpath then the JDK1.2 features below become available.</li>

            <li><b>Java 1.2</b> Swing based GUI <a href="v2/manual/desktop.html">Desktop</a>
                is available. All AWT and Swing event listeners are supported by bsh scripted
                objects.</li>

            <li><b>Java 1.3</b> Full language support. Scripted objects can implement
                any Java interface types and even listeners.</li>
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        Note that the basic syntax of BeanShell remains the same on all versions of
        Java. This includes "Java 5.0" style syntax such as the enhanced for-loop,
        auto-boxing, etc. These features are part of the BeanShell language syntax and
        do not depend on the hosting Java VM.
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