java/97461: Diablo JDK does not report Update level in a format suitable to the Netbeans Enterprise EA Installer

[Mark Evenson]

>Number:         97461
>Category:       java
>Synopsis:       Diablo JDK does not report Update level in a format suitable  to the Netbeans Enterprise EA Installer
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-java
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May 18 15:30:27 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mark Evenson
>Release:        6_1_RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD elvis.intern.etel.at 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Tue May 16 16:57:48 CEST 2006     evenson at elvis.intern.etel.at:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386

>Description:
The Netbeans Enterprise Pack EA [[1]] installer fails to recognize the Diablo 1.5.0  port as being a JVM greater than "Update 1".  The Enterprise Pack installer is inspecting the first string in the stdout of a "java -version" command.  It is expecting a value of the form "1.5.0_nn" where "nn" corresponds to the JDK Update Level.  So the installer refuses to proceed

It is not clear if the output of "java -version" is a part of the comptability tests (I suspect it isn`t)

But it would seem to be a good idea to change the output of "java -version" to conform to what the Netbeans installer expects.

This has been filed as issue 76562 with Netbeans [[2]].

Discussion has occurred on the nbusers mailing list [[3]]

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[[1]]
http://us1.mirror.netbeans.org/download/5_5/beta/200605090801/netbeans-5_5-entpack-as-jbi-am-linux.sh

[[2]]
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=76562

[[3]]
news://news.gmane.org:119/e4hoq3$iek$1@sea.gmane.org

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