cant get Availability manager 3.0 on Windows XP installed

[Barry Kierstein II]

This is just a note on why AM has its own JRE installed with it.

In the AM 1.* timeframe, the JRE on the system was used, I think somewhere in the JRE 1.0.* timeframe. It worked fine, but then people started upgrading to the next version of the JRE (1.1.*? Java 2? My memory is a bit fuzzy). All of a sudden, AM stopped working. It was a fairly major port to go to Java 2, etc. HP got quite a number of support calls, understandably. Customers were in a funny spot - choose to go back to the old JRE to run AM, or not run AM and stay on the new JRE.

So, AM with its own JRE made things more stable. However, the kind of updates mentioned here are not easy. It was a tradeoff for stability.

Barry