IM7 using on java 1.3.1

[sam kite]

Why does IM7 only use java 1.3.1 and not the latest java available? any clues?

[Mike Ludwig]

No answer but you have my sympathy. I have to deal with an internal app that uses one version of java. Oracle clients that use who knows what version of java or what the hell they've done with it. Insight manager that insists on 1.3.1. ILO and RILOE cards that seem to want 1.4.0. Symantec Scan engine for NetApps. and HP freaken webjet admin. They all seem to want a different version of java. Last I checked I had 5 JREs installed. An everytime a new one gets installed somthing gets broken and or fixed. So far I'm missing the critical component that makes it all work. Microsoft JVM? Oh wait they took that away.

JAVA SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS... end of rant.

[David Claypool]

There is a list of 20 incompatibilities with 1.3 introduced with 1.4 documented at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/compatibility.html#incompatibilities1.4

Whether your runtime environment is Java or COBOL, application developers test with a given version and that is what is supported, even if a newer version of the runtime comes out.

1.3.1_02 has all of the features required by IM7SP2 and also contains some security fixes to the JRE.

Two versions of the JRE can exist on your system if you need them to by going to the control panel applet for each and unchecking the box that ties it to the browser.

[Jadrice Toussaint]

Yep Java will do it to you every time. Try to stick to two versions and uncheck the browser setting as David suggested. That worked for me when using ciscoworks.

[Rob Buxton]

And, rather than point the finger at IM for using an older version, the finger should be pointed at those engineering the JRE that makes it backwards incompatible!

Having worked with OpenVMS where images compiled under very old versions of the OS & compilers still run, without change on the latest versions, it makes me very cynical about the supposed gains of Java and other "modern" technologies.