Let's get a prominent note to that effect in the files download page or somewhere in the release notes. Java 1.5 required. Nico, I am fully convinced this was a VERY good idea, despite the fact that some users will hit this snag.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Nicolas Vervelle <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Starting with Jmol 12.0, we decided to stop supporting Java versions before > 1.5. > Even 1.5 is not supported any more by Sun/Oracle, so it seems a reasonable > choice. > > I don't think that you using Java 6, the second output is showing Java > 1.4.0 as version... > If I remember correctly, version 49.0 means Java 1.5 > > Nico > > On 8/19/10, Angel Herráez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am forwarding this to the list. >> >> On 18 Aug 2010 at 15:20, Sara Shi wrote: >> >> > Hi, sorry to bother you, but I couldn't post to the maillist yet. >> > >> > We have exactly the same problem (stucking at the splash screen) if we >> use Jmol 12.0.6 and Java 1.6.0. Following the suggestions by Bob, we just >> tried Jmol 11.8 and it worked well! The following are the output from the >> two versions: >> > >> > M:\>java -Xmx512m -jar Jmol.jar -n >> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: >> > ce/jmol/app/Jmol (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0) >> > at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) >> > at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) >> > at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Sour >> > at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) >> > at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source) >> > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) >> > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Metho >> > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) >> > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) >> > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Sourc >> > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) >> > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source) >> > >> > >> > M:\>java -Xmx512m -jar Jmol11.jar -n >> > (C) 2009 Jmol Development >> > Jmol Version 11.9.1 2009-08-11 16:55 >> > java.vendor:Sun Microsystems Inc. >> > java.version:1.4.0 >> > os.name:Windows XP >> > memory:4.1/6.9 >> > useCommandThread: false >> > Executing script: ;exitJmol // Jmol -n-x >> > >> > Please note that we changed Java to 1.4.0 and the error massage when we >> try to start Jmol 12.0.6 changed to "Could not find the main class. The >> program will exit!". >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by >> >> Make an app they can't live without >> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Jmol-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > > -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Ave. Northfield, MN 55057 http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr phone: 507-786-3107 If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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