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Re: 10.5.5 upgrade botches java applications



On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Doug Zwick <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 26-Sep-08, at 1:48 PM, Filip Defoort wrote:
>
>>>> Anybody any thoughts on how I can fix this for my customers ?
>
> Have you tried replacing the stub with the latest from JavaVM.framework? It
> clearly is using an old stub, and there has been the odd issue brought up on
> the list before with old stubs breaking new Java releases. There have been
> an awful lot of stubs produced over the years, Apple cannot test all of them
> with each new release. Even if IA is providing the stub, you should be able
> to run a post-install action to update it. Unless your app needs an
> installer for some other reason than generating the app bundle, you could
> forego the installer altogether, build the bundle yourself with Apple's
> JarBundler, and distribute it in a .dmg for drag-and-drop installation.

Yes, it's been on my list to axe IA altogether for a while - just
never made it to the top of the list.

Any chance you could give me the exact path to the new stub ?  I can
definitely have my customers try that and see if it solves the
problem.

Thanks for your help !
- Filip
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 >Re: 10.5.5 upgrade botches java applications (From: Doug Zwick <email@hidden>)
 >Re: 10.5.5 upgrade botches java applications (From: "Filip Defoort" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: 10.5.5 upgrade botches java applications (From: "Filip Defoort" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: 10.5.5 upgrade botches java applications (From: Doug Zwick <email@hidden>)



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