I've amassed three JRE sets, the most recent version that IE & Firefox browsers use, plus two older versions in sub-folders installed along with other software, the HP printer Toolbox and Starry Night. What's the best way to get everybody using the same location? Or could that have bad consequences?
Not sure if this is what you're asking, but for what it's worth in light of no other responses - I don't install the JRE updates. I uninstall the old version and do a fresh install of the new. I do the same with Adobe Acrobat Reader and any other software that feels the need to install the update as a separate executable. Then again, I don't use JRE for anything other than the browsers.
Not really, I came across something about changing the Java CLASSPATH environment variable to point to the folder I want to use, but there's no such variable on my system at the mo. Will give it a try. I've found using CP 'Add/Remove Programs' will get rid of the older versions installed by Sun updates, without breaking anything in the newest version.
You should create a new environment variable called classpath and point it to "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\bin" (to the bin folder for whatever version) and also all the bin path to your PATH variable. If you need/want to you can trick it into using a different JVM than it thinks (eg: it thinks its 1.4.03 but its really 1.5.x (we needed to do this for our citrix installation) http://www.stealthpuppy.com/blogs/travelling/archive/2006/08/25/Juggling-Java-VMs.aspx Paul
