Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Reverting to an older JRE

It has been a while since I fiddled with java. Was trying to revert to an earlier version of JRE (1.42) after installing JRE 1.5. Did not manage to find much concise info on the web besides for chunks of queries on the sun forums. But I did manage to find what I was looking for there and thought it would be nice to summarise it here.

Anyway on windows, the easiest thing to do is actually to simply append the path of the JRE to your classpath settings. Win XP will simply use the first JRE it encounters on your classpath.

The other alternative is to run jpicpl32.exe(1.4) or javacpl.exe(1.5 and later) in the bin directory of the JRE you have installed and configure it from there.

2 comments:

xl said...

So nice to see you back here :)

Unknown said...

you're coding in Java, i'm getting in VB .. haha feels like moving backwards ;)