StarTeam supports compatibility between clients and servers which are either one release ahead or behind one another. This support is provided for your convenience in implementing your upgrades to the latest release. Some functionality may only be available in the latest release. You will achieve best performance by upgrading your clients and servers to the same release.
While some flexibility in client-server release combinations is allowed, the StarTeam Server 14.0 will not support connections from clients using an SDK older than the StarTeam 2009 R2 SDK.
The 16.3 StarTeam Cross-Platform Client no longer installs the 16.3 StarTeam SDK separately. It installs the StarTeam SDK .jars in place as part of the StarTeam Cross-Platform Client installation. This means that older version of 16.x SDKs will continue to reside on machines and stcmd or custom scripts will continue to use these older versions.
If using stcmdEx, please note that the stcmdEx.jar is also installed as part of the StarTeam Cross-Platform Client installation. The StarTeam SDK installer is not necessary when using stateless commands via this utility.
If using stcmd, you must install the StarTeam SDK directly. The StarTeam SDK installer is available for download as a separate install. If you need help uninstalling older versions of the StarTeam SDK or the StarTeam Cross-Platform Client, contact Micro Focus support for a clean up utility.