Re: Microsoft Java almost gone in Vista

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:46:40 -0800, Mickey Segal <not_monitored@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you upgrade Windows XP to Vista and have the Microsoft VM selected in
Internet Explorer 7 and the Sun JVM also installed, you arrive in Vista with the Microsoft VM nonfunctional. If you try to enable the Sun JVM
from the Control Panel, Vista doesn't let you do so. However, after
uninstalling and reinstalling Sun Java it is set as the default in IE7.
Then, one can un-select Sun Java and the Microsoft VM works a bit. It
will run some simple applets but hangs on some simple applets such as
the one at www.segal.org/java/just_checkbox/ and on all signed applets I
tested.

I haven't tried re-installing the Microsoft VM. If this works, it would be useful to know, since we still have lots of users of our applets who
are running the Microsoft VM and it would be good to be able to test
that environment without finding an XP computer.

Why bother worrying about non-standard stuff? It would probably be easier to just test for the Microsoft JVM in your applet at the start, and then tell the users that they need to update Java and direct them to useful informational web pages like these (because Sun keeps changing the URI for the download pages; I've had many bookmarks go bad on me because of this):

Installing Java - Java Glossary
http://www.mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html

JRE: Java Glossary
http://www.mindprod.com/jgloss/jre.html

Roedy Green, by the way, has been keeping his web site up to date since the very beginning.

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