Hi,

I've had the following code running on Java 1.6 happily for sometime and
only after someone tried to compile it with 1.4 did I discover my recurring

that it now it says intVar = Integer.parseInt(stringStuff) but I was just
wondering why it ever worked. JAVAC "just knew" I wanted the .value()
instead of the object or is this really useful functionality that comes in
Java 1B :-)

Regards Richard Maher

   public class DateVMS
   {
    int year;
    int month;
    int day;
    int hour;
    int minute;
    int second;
    int hsecs;

    DateVMS (String inDate)
    {
     this.year   = new Integer(inDate.substring( 0,  4));
     this.month  = new Integer(inDate.substring( 4,  6));
     this.month--;
     this.day    = new Integer(inDate.substring( 6,  8));
     this.hour   = new Integer(inDate.substring( 8, 10));
     this.minute = new Integer(inDate.substring(10, 12));
     this.second = new Integer(inDate.substring(12, 14));
     this.hsecs  = new Integer(inDate.substring(14, 16));
    }
    public int getYear()
    {
     return year;
    }