Can Java just shoot me?
Chris G
cl at isbd.net
Sun Nov 25 11:30:52 UTC 2007
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:03:45PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> We have found that the version number of the JRE has far more to do with
> whether Smiley (the name of the telescope) will run on a particular browser
> or not than the platform. We test many versions from 1.4.2 on up, and there
> are too many version-specific hacks to be at all funny.
>
I had this problem in reverse, we have an Oracle forms applet at work
and it insisted on having JRE version 1.4.2_06 and rejected any other
version. I had to patch the applet to make it accept a later 1.4.2
version that it actually works with perfectly well.
So much for Java being 'platform independent'! :-)
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Chris Green
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