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JRE 1.5 or 1.6? #34

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
From issue 28 it was found that Jpowder support JRE version 1.6 only.

Investigate two options for improving this situation

1) Install SDK 1.5.1. After installing this. In Netbeans click properties, then 
Libraries and then 'Manage Platforms' and add new SDK. Questions:

  How difficult would it be to compile Jpowder with JRE 1.5, and
  would we loose any Jpowder functionality doing this? 

  In general terms is JRE 1.6 a major JAVA improvement compared
  to JRE 1.5?? I.e. does Java applications in general perform a 
  lot better using a JRE 1.6 rather than JRE 1.5?

2) Would it be possible during the installation process to quiry 
what version of JRE the user has installed on target PC? If yes, 
how difficult would it be to have a window popping up telling the 
user to update their JRE before proceeding Jpowder, where they
have an unsupported version installed?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by anders.m...@stfc.ac.uk on 9 Jul 2010 at 11:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Added new applet to main page of Jpowder website to check what version of java 
installed on the client computer. If version 1.6 or later is not installed on 
the computer it prompt a panel asks them if they want to install latest JRE. 
Which solves the problem. So if student at university using JRE version 1.5 
then it tells them that they can not run Jpowder and they need to install the 
latest JRE.

Original comment by arje...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2010 at 1:39

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by arje...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2010 at 7:57