Re: [Libreoffice] Java 7 - not recognised in LO in Windows Vista

+1 There is no point to invest insane amounts of time in weird
compatibility voodoo magic for something that will be fixed in 1-2 weeks.

Marc-André Laverdière
Software Security Scientist
Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India

On 07/30/2011 05:27 PM, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:25:47PM +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> > JFYI, don't know if this is a valid issue, but wanted to share
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [tdf-discuss] Java 7 - not recognised in LO in Windows Vista
> > Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:36:26 +0100
> > From: Mike Hall <mike.hall@onepoyle.net>
> > Reply-to: discuss@documentfoundation.org
> > To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
> >
> > Noticed by chance that Java 7.0 was released today. It's not in the
> > normal update cycle yet, but you can download it from:
> > www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-se-jre-7-download-432155.html
> >
> > It installs and works fine in a number of apps (eg Jedit), but I can't
> > get LO 3.4.1 to recognise it, not even when given what should be the
> > right path (via Tools > Options > Java > Add)
> >
> > Just wondering whether this is something that needs to be looked at
> > before 3.4.2 is released as I expect it will soon become the standard
> > Java release?
>
> It seems Java 7 has been knowingly released with critical bugs:
>
> http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/07/28/dont-use-java-7-for-anything/
>
>   "These problems were detected only 5 days before the official Java 7 release,
>   so Oracle had no time to fix those bugs"
>
> They knew before the release date their product was broken and they still
> shipped it. Unbelievable.
>
> Instead of taking steps to enable the use of Java 7, we may want to actively
> discourage it for now.