I decided I wanted to try J under Linux, so I downloaded a VMware appliance of Ubuntu 7.04 Desktop and ran it under VMWare Player.
I then installed J according to the instructions at http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Installation/Linux32 I got the jconsole working pretty quickly, but had a number of problems getting the Java Front end to work. It turned out that the issue was that I had an open source Java installed rather than the Sun one http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2006-June/027344.html. The Installation page mentions that "J32 requires version 1.4.2 or later." It would be helpful to explicitly mention that "J32 requires Sun java version 1.4.2 or later." (a contributing factor for me was that the version for the open source java was 4.1.2, which was similar enough to the Sun version that it didn't register as being wrong). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
