Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and Java

Thank you Alex... more involved than I thought.  No time for the next 
couple of days, but Base is sitting open and seemingly working so I'll 
do what I need then go looking for trouble :-)

Now all I need to do is remember how to tell what bitness of LO I have!

Cheers,
K

On 29/11/2016 14:29, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> Le 28/11/2016 à 23:05, Keith Barber a écrit :
>
> Hi Keith,
>
> > Thank you for this Alex.  Not sure I'm computerate enough to know the
> > difference between a JDK and a JRE.  However, I do have 2 JREs
> > installed, a 32-bit and a 64-bit.
>
> JREs have an automatic update mechanism which checks to see whether
> you're at the latest release version, and offers to install it for you.
>
> JDKs do not have this automatic update mechanism - it is up to the user
> to go and look from time to time to see if an update is available.
>
> JDKs are the complete Java Development Kit, as opposed to JREs which are
> a Java Runtime Environment.
>
> Basically, if you have automatic updates to Java, then you have JREs
> installed.
>
> These will no longer work correctly with current release versions
> (5.2.x) of LibreOffice and Base (embedded hsqldb) files - you will need
> to switch to a JDK for that. It is also better in principle to use a bit
> version of the JDK that corresponds to the bit version of LibreOffice
> you are using. If your are using a 64bit version of LibreOffice, then
> download and install a 64bit version of the Java Development Kit
> available from Oracle.
>
>
>
>
> Alex


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Best,
Keith Barber

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