Hi :) Where Andreas offers a choice of either 3.5.3 with any Java or 3.4.6 with Java 6 (not 7) I would recommend 3.4.6 with Java 6u31. I thought compatibility with Java 7 had been back-ported to LO 3.4.5&3.4.6 but if that's not working for you then the Java 6u31 should be fine. Not long ago people often had to go back to the worryingly ancient Java 6u21 as anything after 6u24 slowed or crashed quite a few people's machines. The LO devs seem to have fixed that. The problem seems to be with Oracle's 'professional' programmers or may it's part of some strategy to start profiting from Java which is currently free. At the moment it is just making people lose confidence in Java. LibreOffice devs are writing-out any dependence on Java. Hopefully Extensions-devs might go the same way too. Sadly not enough people are working on Base at the moment but it seems to have picked-up a bit. Caligra Office have a database program called Kexi which just fixed a few issues so it might be worth trying. I think most people run Base quite happily but avoid using the internal HsqlDb. HsqlDb as an external DB seems fine but there are other choices for a wide variety of back-ends. Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/What-versions-of-LibO-and-Java-JRE-to-install-today-tp3984510p3984521.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted