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On Wednesday May 10 2006 07:47 am, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> Last I heard, if that JRE is not version 1.5.06, then the Base component
> will have unexplained problems. When I say "heard", I mean that numerous
> people have experienced mysterious perplexing crashes and failures that
> went away after switching to version 1.5.06. The biggest problem is
> trying to use 1.4.
>
> I personally experienced this both on Windows and Linux. You might want
> to add a tip.
I have gone a little farther than giving this information as a tip: I
placed the following Caution in the Getting Started with Base:
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The database in OOo requires Sun’s Java JRE. If you do not have it on your
computer, download it from www.java.com and install it following the
instructions on the site. It should be Java 5.0 or higher. In OOo, use
Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Java to register Java.
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As mentioned below, Jean has altered the "Sun's Java JRE" to "Sun's
Java Runtime Environment (JRE)", but the rest remains intact. I feel it
needs to be a caution for Base and the wizards. (Base has to have it to
work.) In other areas, a tip might be fine. Although I am not convinced
that a presentation can be created without JRE. (It uses a wizard to
create it.)
Dan
>
> Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> > Dan Lewis wrote:
> >> On Wednesday May 10 2006 05:51 am, Perry Spiller wrote:
> >>> Jean said:
> >>>> In the "Getting Started with Base" chapter is this statement:
> >>>> "The database in OOo requires Sun's Java JRE."
> >>>
> >>> I make the observation that "Sun's Java JRE" contains a redundancy.
> >>> Should it not be Sun's JRE?
> >>
> >> At first glance, it would seem so. However, when it comes to
> >> Java there is the JRE and SKD. So the redundancy might well be
> >> needed.
> >
> > I changed it to Sun's Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which is the
> > term used in Chapter 1 "What is OOo?" and other places in the books.
> >
> > -- Jean
