Cross-Java Compatibility

You must run all communicating agents and managers with the same major version of the Java Runtime Environment, either all using JDK 1.1 or all using Java 2. The behavior of a manager running Java 2 and communicating with an agent running the JDK 1.1, or vice-versa, is undefined. Data integrity and behavioral integrity are only possible when both agent and manager run the same version of the Java environment.

Again, SNMP interoperability has the advantage over other protocols of being independent of the Java environment version. The SNMP protocol adaptor can, regardless of its Java version, receive and decode requests from any SNMP manager. And a manager implemented with the SNMP manager API can send requests to any agent, without needing to know about its version compatibility.