Terry Norton wrote:
> I posted this on the OS/2 User group with no response. So I'll try the
> java experts here on eCS and Mozilla, since I'm using both.
>
> I use a java brokerage app (TWS at Interactive Brokers) that runs
> through Mozilla. Life has been wonderful until a few days ago. The app
> automatically downloads new jar files as the app is upgraded or fixed,
> and no, I don't have any choice.
>
> Well, sure enough, when I started the app, a new jar was downloaded, and
> the app reports that I only have a java 1.3.1 environment, and
> instructs me to get java 1.4.
>
> Can I hack something in my java files to make it report as 1.4?
>
> I got around this problem, sort of, by naming the old jar file the app
> had been using to the new name just downloaded. So whatever was in the
> new jar file I can't use since I'm still using the old one.
>
> Now I'm assuming a few things here. I thought I had read that the OS/2
> java 1.3.1 does indeed include some 1.4 enhancements, but it's just not
> being released as 1.4 for whatever reason. Am I way off base? And is
> there any hope besides having to use Windows?
There is a strong rumor that Java 1.4 for OS/2 is in the works. But
there is no official confirmation. But until and unless this happens,
you are stuck with Java 1.3+, which does not have the Java 1.4
enhancements, eg. the bells and whistles of sound and video like WPS has.
--
Bill
<Labor Day is September 2>
