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

[Marc-André Laverdière]

+1 There is no point to invest insane amounts of time in weird
compatibility voodoo magic for something that will be fixed in 1-2 weeks.

Marc-André Laverdière
Software Security Scientist
Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India

On 07/30/2011 05:27 PM, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> 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.
>