Lame JRE happens
I was trying to install the fast JRockit, of course on Windows.
This were a very-very intriguing experience since, after unarchiving, my …”JVM failed to start”.
Waitaminite, I’m running a Windows 2000 SP4, I couldn’t have Java, Microsoft removed it and I was willing to install the standard-compliant-fast-amazing-JRockit. Of course, I won’t waste JavaLobby webspace if I hadn’t any Java: in fact, I had lost the number of JRE’s: 1 from Microsoft, 2 from IBM (an stand-alone and one from a SDK), about 4 from Sun (1.4 JRE, then one with the JDK, then another from Macromedia trialware, then the beta of 1.5, one with Opera, I suppose one with Netscape and some others that I’ve missed). So I have 2 Control Panel applets: one from IBM (pathetic one, JSE 1.3) and one from Sun with a 1.5 face. Changing the default JRE in one doesn’t affect the another, I always look in the tray to see what JRE is running. Anyway, either is skinnable on its default JRE.
Yesterday, I’ve seen the same stupid thing. A friend has an 68k Mac and he was trying to upgrade the OS. The update came in StuffIt archives, so we needed a StuffIt. we had one of our worst life experiences to see that StuffIt is shipped as a… StuffIt archive.
Therefore, you need a good JRE if you want to install JRockit JRE and you need StuffIt if you want to install StuffIt. Did you missed something?