Requirements

[Christopher Wood <ch...@thetoxiczone.com>]

Hi,

I have spent some time trying to work out why Apache Directory Studio on my
Linux system had stopped working.

I feel it would be helpful if the page
http://directory.apache.org/studio/download/download-linux.html was updated
so the requirements are correct it currently states "Java Runtime
Environment 7 or later." when in fact it should read "Java Runtime
Environment 7 or 8."

My issue was I had upgraded to was 9 and removed older versions as this is
considered good security practice, and I am an infrequent user of studio so
did not tie these things together.  So, I made sure I had the latest version
of studio and obviously 9 is later than 7 (checking the requirements), so
started to look for permission problems etc. I eventually found the answer
when looking at the FAQ to see if I could find the log locations, but under
setting the VM I found the line "Studio requires Java 7 or Java 8
(recommended). Java 9 is not yet supported."

Re: Requirements

[Emmanuel Lécharny <el...@gmail.com>]

Le 18/06/2017 à 11:58, Christopher Wood a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I have spent some time trying to work out why Apache Directory Studio on my
> Linux system had stopped working.
>
> I feel it would be helpful if the page
> http://directory.apache.org/studio/download/download-linux.html was updated
> so the requirements are correct it currently states "Java Runtime
> Environment 7 or later." when in fact it should read "Java Runtime
> Environment 7 or 8."
>
> My issue was I had upgraded to was 9 and removed older versions as this is
> considered good security practice, and I am an infrequent user of studio so
> did not tie these things together.  So, I made sure I had the latest version
> of studio and obviously 9 is later than 7 (checking the requirements), so
> started to look for permission problems etc. I eventually found the answer
> when looking at the FAQ to see if I could find the log locations, but under
> setting the VM I found the line "Studio requires Java 7 or Java 8
> (recommended). Java 9 is not yet supported."

Your issue is that you are using a version of Java whch is not
officially out (it *may* be released in september 2017, but it may also
be differed).

We don't support Java 9 because there is no such thing as a released
Java 9 as of today.

And for good security reasons, you would be better using something that
is released and supported, like Java 8...

-- 
Emmanuel Lecharny

Symas.com
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