Is JDK1.5 compatible with OAS 10gR2 infrastructure?

Some of the jar files compiled with 1.5JDK are not working with the default JDK(1.4) that came with OAS10gR2. I know how to upgrade the JDk to 1.5,
I don't need additional features of 1.5. Let me know if any one knows JDK1.5 is certified with OAS10gR2 by replacing jdk folder with 1.5 version files.
This worked fine in windows based standalone mode with OC4J.

Yes, it is possible; however I did it by creating a new OC4J container, so as not to upset existing deployments, and copied all the jars from <JDEV_HOME>/BC4J/jlib and <JDEV_HOME>/BC4J/lib as well as the following jars from <JDEV_HOME>/jlib (jdev-cm.jar, jsp-el-api.jar, ojmisc.jar, oracle-el.jar) to the applib directory of the OC4J container
Regards
Gareth

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My understanding with Financials is when you setup the app tier you pick a port pool (0 corresponds to port pool starting with 8000 etc. and port pool 4 would be 8004 etc.).
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