Question about compiler method binding regarding generic methods

[laeubi]

This is not really a question about JDT directly, but ti feels JDT devlopers are the right audience to ask!

I'm currently working on a tool that checks OSGi version ranges and came about an interesting problem:

• We have org.osgi.framework.Version that implements comparable
• One point in time, there was no generic, so the class provided the method signature compareTo(Object)
• Today we override it and it has become compareTo(Version other)
• Now I have a classfile that has a method reference (compiled against the one with generics) that looks like this org/osgi/framework/Version#compareTo(Lorg/osgi/framework/Version;)I

Given I can really run the old (non generic) version against that compiled classfile, will it still work or result in a NoSuchMethod or similar?!?