Re: ? newer version overwrites older
JClark wrote:
I'm having problems getting two versions of java runtime environment
to work together. A program I need to view my charts at a hospital
requires java 1.4.2_13.
I was instructed to do the following:
Uninstall all versions of java.
Install java 1.4.2_13
configure 1.4.2_13
Install any later versions of java.
But here's what happens:
If I install only the older version, it works fine, but if I install
the latest jre 6.3, it seems to overwrite the older one, and I can no
longer access the charts.
Here are the names of the programs I'm installing, in that order, with
reboot inbetween. (The files were downloaded from the Sun site):
j2re-1_4_2_13-windows-i586-p.exe
jre-6u3-windows-i586-p.exe
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
You don't say that you're using Windows (or which version), but the .exe
suffix on your downloads implies that you are.
With Windows XP, at least, when you install multiple versions of Java they all
co-exist quite nicely. You can tell by reviewing the Control Panel "Add /
Remove Programs" utility that they're all there.
Programs that require Java 1.4 (and I assure you the program itself does not
require update 13 specifically) generally run quite well under later JVMs,
unless they use the identifier "enum". Why doesn't this one?
What evidence do you have that Java 6 actually *overwrote* Java 1.4?
Much more likely is that you simply aren't getting the older one by default.
When something isn't in the Windows PATH, you have to use explicit paths to
executables.
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