Same on XP, I have found java stuff doesn't work right, unless you
use v 1.4 of java. So on your XP machine, you can't upgrade java.
I've a small datum to support this. I fiddled with Dev Studio on XP
+SP2 in Fusion with Java 1.5.0, and kept getting an "Init Jave
error" [sic]. I retreated to a backup Fusion image on which Java had
not yet been installed, added Java 1.4.1_07 and Dev Studio, and it
worked a treat. (I thought about trying 1.4.2_17 - the last 1.4
release - but finally decided on the last 1.4.1 release, since that's
what the install docs say you need, I figured that was probably what
they were using when witango released Dev Studio 5.5, and I wanted to
find something that worked...)
BTW, here's the URL you want for digging out old java stuff...
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/
The latest release of App Server seems to work fine with 10.4.11 on
intel hardware, though mind you I've only done testing so far, not
turned students loose on it in our Mac Labs... I haven't tried this
stuff out in Leopard yet.
If you have trouble getting JDBC going, or don't want to be stuck with
maintaining an old XP+SP2 machine or virtual image, ODBC seems robust
in XP, and I found it easy to open TAFs with a text editor and change
the <DSTYPE>JDBC</DSTYPE> to <DSTYPE>ODBC</DSTYPE>, create an
appropriate jdbc.ini, and point the App Server to the database via
JDBC on my Mac. Though once again I've only done this a few times.
-jcb
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