Error: Cannot access protected member long getTimeInMillis() in class Calendar

[cachi]

Hi, I am coding a cross-platform piece of code, which explicitly needs to be backwards (and forwards) compatible, between various versions of Java.

However, another problem is that it also needs to be VM cross compatible (between Sun JVM 1.2+ and Microsoft JVM 6.0+).

The requirement is to compile using Microsoft JDK (jvc.exe) 6.00.8343.

I have a piece of code that looks something like this:

Code:

long time = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.get...).getTimeInMillis();

This works fine under Sun JDK (1.3.1), but under Microsoft, it spits out the following error:

Code:

java\xxx\yyy\Zzzzz.java(4129,57) : error J0203: Cannot access protected member 'long getTimeInMillis()' in class 'Calendar' from class 'Zzzzz.Zinner'

Where could I find the API specification document for the Microsoft JDK Calendar class; or what would be another way of achieving this (another method that's both public and common to both JDK perhaps)?
Thanks.

[silvia]

I couldn't find any api specifications for Microsoft's JVM. The closest I found was a message from Microsoft telling users to move off their JVM by December of 2007 to Sun's as they will no longer be supporting it (Sun won their lawsuit).

But to help with the error, have you tried separating it out? Or maybe moving paren's around? For example..

Code:

Long time = (Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.get...)).getTimeInMillis();

or

Code:

Calendar ctemp = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.get..);
Long time = ctemp.getTimeInMillis();

It seems odd to me that Microsoft wouldn't provide this functionality despite it being in the java source code.