Re: Oracle 8i and newer JVM/JRE

In article <rrocgv8kj0bjiri1o0lv3mb0j10u1d2372_at_4ax.com>, postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl wrote:
>On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 04:37:56 GMT, coryalbrecht_at_hotmail.com (Cory C.
>Albrecht) wrote:
>>Any tips or pointers?

>Have a trash bin somewhere? Perfect location for your desupported
>8.1.6

It should be good enough for evaluating Oracle.

>Get 8.1.7 and you won't have this problem.
>Sw is usually downwards compatible, which means your version is NEVER
>going to work with a newer jre.

And is the installer in 8.1.7 smart enugh to realize that I already have Java installed? Or is it goign to inanely go and forcibly install an older version of Java, breaking my 1.4.1_03 like 8.1.6 did?

Accoding to a PDF on oracle.com, 8.1.6 suppors JDK2, (Java 1.2), so why is it even installing a 1.1.7 JRE? Even if there is some obscure reason why it _must_ have that specific version of a JRE it was a bad move on Oracle's part to not have the installer check if Java is already present so that it won't break a potentially newer Java. (Not to mention the stupidity of wasting disk space with an extra copy of the JRE.)

As for never working with a new verison of the JRE, there is no reaosn why it shouldn't. Any pure Java Java classes will still run under a 1.4 JRE as they did under a 1.1.7 JRE, and even any native code libraries called by Java classes will still run fine and dandy because the Java Native Interface spec came out with Java 1.1.

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