[Libreoffice] Java 7 - not recognised in LO in Windows Vista

[Francois Tigeot]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:25:47PM +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> JFYI, don't know if this is a valid issue, but wanted to share
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [tdf-discuss] Java 7 - not recognised in LO in Windows Vista
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:36:26 +0100
> From: Mike Hall <mike.hall at onepoyle.net>
> Reply-to: discuss at documentfoundation.org
> To: discuss at documentfoundation.org
> 
> Noticed by chance that Java 7.0 was released today. It's not in the
> normal update cycle yet, but you can download it from:
> www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-se-jre-7-download-432155.html
> 
> It installs and works fine in a number of apps (eg Jedit), but I can't
> get LO 3.4.1 to recognise it, not even when given what should be the
> right path (via Tools > Options > Java > Add)
> 
> Just wondering whether this is something that needs to be looked at
> before 3.4.2 is released as I expect it will soon become the standard
> Java release?

It seems Java 7 has been knowingly released with critical bugs:

http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/07/28/dont-use-java-7-for-anything/

  "These problems were detected only 5 days before the official Java 7 release,
  so Oracle had no time to fix those bugs"

They knew before the release date their product was broken and they still
shipped it. Unbelievable.

Instead of taking steps to enable the use of Java 7, we may want to actively
discourage it for now.

-- 
Francois Tigeot