5.4-RELEASE && Java jre1.3

Micah micahjon at ywave.com
Tue Sep 20 08:02:58 PDT 2005



Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've the official dictionary of the Academy RAE of Spain. It
> works very nice on Linux with an jre 1.1.8 shipped with the
> dictionary on CD; because I want to switch over to FreeBSD
> I've ported jdk15 form /usr/ports/java/jdk15 which took
> one night buy installed without any problem. But apparently
> the application gives nullpointer exceptions with the java 1.5
> and the folks of the Academy RAE are claiming that it has
> to be 1.3 and not 1.5.
> 
> Apparently there is no jre1.3 in the ports collection and
> the diablo-jre13 does not compile:
> 
> # make
> ===>  diablo-jre-1.3.1.0_1 does not run on FreeBSD >= 5.x.
> #
> 
> Is there any help?
> 
> Thx
> 
> 	matthias

You could always install the 1.3 version of the jdk in addition to the 
1.5 jdk.  They install to different locations so they can co-exist. 
Installing the javavmwrapper will help with managing multiple jdks. 
Kind of overkill just to get a 1.3 JRE but...

HTH,
Micah



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