[oXygen-user] Changing Java VM

[Felix Sasaki]

Hi Adrian,

Am 16.06.2014 um 10:37 schrieb Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) <support at oxygenxml.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> You haven't mentioned the version of Oxygen, so I'm assuming it's the current version, v16.0.

Correct, see below
„… oxygen installation (version 16)".

> We generally do not recommend changing the bundled/recommended JRE unless you have a very good reason (e.g. serious bugs or crashes with that JRE).
> Is there a particular reason why you want to run Oxygen with Java 7?


I want to use this plugin
https://github.com/danielnaber/oxygen-languagetool-plugin/
which requires Java 7.


> 
> The instructions you found on the forum do not apply to OS X. They are for Linux and Windows distributions.
> The OS X .zip distribution of Oxygen requires Java SE 6 (from Apple). There is no way to configure the .app to recognize Java 7 or later (from Oracle).
> 
> There is also a .tar.gz distribution for OS X that bundles Java SE 8u5. You can download that here:
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstData/Editor/MacOSX/VM/oxygen.tar.gz
> If for some reason you want to use Java 7 instead of 8, although we do not recommend this, in this distribution you can replace the JRE found in 'oxygen/.install4j/jre.bundle'.
> Note that this does not work the same as Linux and Windows, so if you simply remove that folder, Oxygen will no longer start.
> You will have to either copy your Java 7 JRE ('Contents' folder) to that folder ('jre.bundle'), or create a symbolic link that points to your Java 7 JRE installation folder.


Thanks a lot, I will give that a try.

Regards,

Felix

> 
> Regards,
> Adrian
> Adrian Buza
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> 
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> On 16.06.2014 10:33, Felix Sasaki wrote:
>> I tried to follow this explanation to change the Java VM
>> 
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/topic7033.html#p22000
>> 
>> to set oxygen to work with Java version 7. But I don’t have an JRE directoy in my oxygen installation (version 16). I am using Mac os X 10.9.2. The Mac Java control panel tells me that I have only Java versions 1.7.0_60 in the mac os, but the oxygen info via
>> "Help > About, System properties, „java.runtime.version“"
>> says that oxygen is using java1.6.
>> 
>> The oxygen java.library.path system property has the value
>> 
>> /Applications/oxygen/Oxygen XML Editor.app/Contents/Resources/Java:/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/JavaApplicationLauncher.framework/Resources:.:/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java
>> 
>> so maybe I need to change something in the Oxygen XML Editor.app so that oxygen uses java 7. Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Felix
>> 
>> 
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