Java 1.5.0-06 is available on Sun

[William L. Hartzell]

Sir:

Is it possible to upgrade Innotek's Java 1.4.2-05 by copying over the
SUN latest on to it? I found a Java project insisting upon you having
the latest Java.
--
Bill
Thanks a Million!

[Peter Brown]

Hi Bill

William L. Hartzell wrote:
> Sir:
>
> Is it possible to upgrade Innotek's Java 1.4.2-05 by copying over the
> SUN latest on to it? I found a Java project insisting upon you having
> the latest Java.

I have some doubts simply because it cannot be installed successfully
using either Odin or ar5os2.exe - reports a wrong Windows version and
terminates here using ar5os2.exe but with Odin it cannot even extract
files successfully.

If you can work out how to fool the installer into thinking that the
Innotek environment is any of the Win95 OS's onwards...

I may unpack in VPC later and just copy files to see what happens but
suspect that Registry entries would need to be changed/updated in an
OS/2 system that would be updated by the install process. Could be a bit
of a pain manually finding and changing entries... Could also get it
totally wrong :-)

Regards

Pete

[Peter Brown]

Hi

Just to follow up on the above.

I had a quick look at the jdk package (150_05) and I think that the
Innotek java142 sdk has several "wrapper" files that would need
modifying to work with this package as there is a lot of difference in
directory structure.

Might check out the jre version later but would expect some differences
there as well - but maybe less than the jdk/sdk packages. I doubt that
it would be as easy as updating Flash7 from R14 to R61 though :-)

Wonder if eCS are thinking of including java150 with eCSv2... might be
worth asking I guess as I doubt that we will see a java update any other
way.

What may be related there is any preference OpenOffice2 has for a java
version - did I not read somewhere that eCS are funding a "native" OO2?

Regards

Pete