Hi :) Actually it is probably better to just switch Java off. Chances are that you are not really using it anyway so you can avoid these sorts of issues just by switching it off Tools - Options - Advanced ? and UNtick the box at the very top that asks if you want to use the broken mess of Oracle coding that we lovingly call Java and that Homeland Security have apparently warned companies to stop using.
If you really are using Java then you will just get an error message at some point in the future at which point you just re-tick the box. Not much of a problem. LibreOffice used to have quite a lot of Java in it's code but that has almost entirely been written out or converted to Python or C++ which are a LOT more stable and far less dependant on the whims of a single profit-making company. At some point Oracle will probably release a "Professional" or "Enterprise" version of Java which will fix most of the problems that Java currently has but it's not clear how much they would charge or what licensing they would use. So far they seem to have been following a good strategy for turning something from being free into making it profitable although it'/s not clear whether that was their intention or whether they really are incompetent at producing secure coding. (just my own opinion) About 6 months - 1 year ago there was a report saying that only around 12% of LibreOffice's code was still in java and most of that was in wizards that almost no-one ever uses. That 12% will probably have shrunk quite drastically. Java also sometimes gets used is when using Base with it's internal back-end (which is possibly the worst way of using Base right now). Generally start with that but then swiftly move the data tables into something like MySql (Oracle's again), MariaDB (doesn't work on Macs apparently), Postgresql or one of the tiny fast back-ends fro smaller databases. There is work going on to switch to a more recent version of a different database program for the internal back-end and that should be a huge improvement. The only other place Java gets used is a lot of the Accessibility stuff such as screen-readers. Sadly there is no way around that one :( We are hoping that a ton of coding gets pulled in from external sources to massively improve accessibility. There are people working on the accessibility stuff so if you have Java for that they might be able to help but their fixes might not be relevant for other users. Regards from Tom :) On 23 October 2013 10:05, Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22/10/2013 12:47, S o H o N Y C wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > my copy of LibreOffice 4.1.2 keeps crashing as soon as I start > editing a text document. It keeps asking for Java Runtime SE 6.0 even > though it is installed already. > > > > Any ideas of a fix? maybe 4.1.3 RC1 can help? Thanks in advance for > your response > > > > > Currently, LO is released as a 32bit program on Mac OSX and consequently > requires a 32bit Java VM. Mountain Lion provides both 32bit and 64bit > versions of JVM, but I have no idea whether Maverick still continues to > provide that 32bit version of the Apple supplied JVM. > > Additionally, there may simply be as yet undiscovered bugs in LO with > regard to Maverick. As far as I know, no one on the Mac dev team is > building LO on OSX Maverick (hardly surprising as it was only officially > released yesterday ?). It is possible to obtain test releases of LO for > the 64bit architecture, but these are considered works in progress. Look > for the OSX daily builds with the x86_64 tag, there used to be at least > one machine producing them. > > My own-built 64bit developer builds seem to work mostly OK, but I > haven't made the switch to Maverick yet. > > > Alex > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
