Hi :) The 1.6.0_31xx is the old branch of Java and has known issues "out in the wild".
Oracle keep insisting that people upgrade to their newest version of Java because all previous ones have been compromised. Often they don't even release some versions because each one gets compromised so quickly, sometimes even before the newer one gets released! In the US their "Homeland Security" issued a warning; https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-010A Oracle released another upgrade and claimed to have fixed the problem but http://www.zdnet.com/homeland-security-warns-java-still-poses-risks-after-security-fix-7000009785/ https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/remove_olderversions.xml http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2013/feb/08/java-remove-ask-jack-technology http://threatpost.com/oracle-java-patch-update-pushes-2013-totals-past-last-year OpenJDK is one response to all this and works well for almost everything that needs Java. http://openjdk.java.net/ It is still owned by Oracle but it does seem to have a proper community in addition to their regular programmers so it seems quite a lot more secure and less vulnerable to problems. Java has almost entirely been written out of LibreOffice but there are still some things that depend on Java. Accessibility stuff such as screen-readers are in the process of moving away from Java en-masse. Some wizards and Extensions probably still use Java. Oddly i still see a LOT of job adverts for programmers who can write Java. I'm hoping that is to help companies migrate away or to re-write existing java packages! Regards from Tom :) On 16 July 2014 03:28, Tom Cloyd <tomcloydm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/08/2014 01:21 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > >> /No SDBC driver was found for the URL 'sdbc:embedded:hsqldb/ >> > Well, nuts. > > Problem solved: * > > I just needed to go to Settings > LibreOffice > Advanced, and enable my > installed Sun java runtime 1.6.0_31.* > > I had it turned off, on the premise (read on the LO list a while back) > that if you didn't need it it was likely to cause problems needlessly. It > appears to be need for Base, at least for the hsqldb. > > I see that this problem is a recurrent one, at least according to Google, > although it may not be at all due to the issue I found. > > t. > > -- > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Tom Cloyd, MS MA (LMHC, WA State) > Cedar City / St. George, UT, U.S.A: (435) 272-3332 > * << t...@tomcloyd.com >> (email) << TomCloyd.com >> (website) > * Sleight of Mind blog: Sleightmind.com (mental health issues) > * Founder: Google+ Trauma and Dissociation Education and Advocacy community > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted