<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Same as it always was. Some things never change. How can a thing be all about "compile once, run everywhere" when compatibility between releases always breaks?</div><div><br></div><div>Hard to believe that neither Sun nor Oracle have learned about interface stability and versioning. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 2, 2013, at 4:25 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Some things that were designed to run in Java 6 won’t run in Java 7.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You can install Java 6 (a/k/a 1.6) from Oracle’s (Solaris) Java site if it is no longer in the Fedora repositories. You can leave Java 7 (a/k/a 1.7) as the
default Java and point whichever application is having the issue to use the newly installed 6 from its location.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Note that Java 6 is EOL and no vendors including RedHat are doing any further bug or security fixes to it though it is still in the RHEL5 repositories. It
is not in the RHEL6 repositories so we had to do the above for one of our older apps running on RHEL6.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pete Hardie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 02, 2013 3:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ale] Fedora 19 and Java 7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I just installed F19 on my work system, and am trying to run a java app from the command line. I have run it before on F17/Java 6 without issue, but cannot now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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