Thanks Girvin,
I run Windows 7x64 Home Premium.
AOO is the ONLY piece of my software that requires JRE 6. Thunderbird
(TB) seems to run OK without it, although its been squirrely for the
last few months (cause unknown). I've already installed two substitutes
for the absolute failure of TB, both paid for programs. I am prepared,
as best I can be.
I agree with your last paragraph 100%.
AOO will be unusable if they don't upgrade, one way or the other. Libra
Office will be in the same boat, so can't go there either. Next bet is
Google, but I really don't like their interface.
I used the AOO Database portion, but didn't depend on its usefulness, so
/that/ isn't a major loss, for me. I don't trust the Apache Foundation
to actually /Fix /this JRE issue before February since there has been no
authoritative effort to notify the group of the issue.
The notification came straight from an Oracle email.
Take Care.
Scooter
College Park, MD USA
Girvin R. Herr wrote on 12/12/2012 3:48 PM:
Scooter C wrote:
Why has this issue not been mentioned?
last publicly available release of Oracle JDK 6 is to be released in
*February, 2013*.
This means that after February 19, 2013, all newsecurity updates <#>,
patches and fixes for Java SE 6 and Java SE 5 will only be available
through My Oracle Support and will thus require a commercial license
with Oracle
http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/sev10013091-index-1881597.html?msgid=3-7555351270
Take Care.
Scooter
College Park, MD USA
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I don't have an answer to why this has not been mentioned in this
forum. It has now!
And I just went through the pain of creating an Oracle account to gain
access to their archives for the old (Java 6) versions!
Time to resurrect Blackdown Java?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackdown_Java
What about that Free Software Foundation (GNU) Java? I have a Java RE
called Free Software Foundation 1.4.2 on my Slackware Linux 12.2
system. A look at their website looks like it is no longer active.
Maybe it is time for AOO to either code for Java 7 or remove Java
dependencies altogether.
Keep in mind that AOO is not the only app that uses Java. Mozilla
immediately comes to mind. They will most likely have to change also.
Girvin Herr
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