Re: JBuilder 2005 & Java 1.5? should be Java 1.4

On 6 Jan 2006, at 03:21, BOB wrote:

Ok I have sold my PowerBook (no apple here)

Well, if you can believe the rumor sites, you'll be buying another shortly :-) :-)

but I have a lot of experience with JBuilder 2005 on OS 10.

1) You need to install Xcode and all the Java devtool things (default installation will suffice) for it to install properly

Check.

2) Make sure that Java 1.4 is your default Java Virtual Machine, or else insert into jdk.config or jbuilder.config under "JBuilder 2005 | bin" directory a proper string command that let JBuilder know that you want another Java virtual machine to fire up JBuilder (you need to Google for it – I will post the proper “addvw string” if I find it though - other people mentioned the info.plist file and this may very well be the proper way to do it)

I believe that this is the nub of the problem. Since isAlwaysOnTop() is new for 1.5 (that's what it says on java.sun.com, anyway) and I've set Java to 1.4.2 in the Java Preferences, so this method shouldn't even be called.

so have you tried to set Java 1.4 as the default virtual machine via the Java configuration thingy under Applications|utilities?

Check.

Since Im not on any Apple hardware at the moment I can not really help you (I don`t even know if the official Java 5 implementation is out and the default virtual machine for OS 10 is Java 5 so...)

I don't think that Java 1.5 is official on Apple, yet, and Borland doesn't support this configuration either (in fact, they don't officially support 10.4), so there's no reason why any of this *should* work.

I thought about mucking about in the System/Library/ ..., just moving the currentJDK to point to 1.4.2 instead of 1.5.0, but I thought that might be a Bad Idea.

I'm about ready to give up, but I really like JBuilder's GUI editor, and it is crossplatform. If anyone has any suggestions as to an ide with a cross-platform GUI editor, I could work with that, I suppose.

Thanks for all your help,

Michael

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References:
	>Re: JBuilder 2005 & Java 1.5? (From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>)
	>Re: JBuilder 2005 & Java 1.5? should be Java 1.4 (From: BOB <email@hidden>)