[oXygen-user] Changing Java VM

[Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza)]

Hi,

We generally recommend Oxygen plugin developers to build them for Java 6 
for best compatibility, especially for OS X.
Anyway, I see there that building the source code requires Java 7 or 
*later*. So it should run fine with Java SE 8. I'd recommend sticking 
with the bundled version of the JRE rather than changing it.

Regards,
Adrian

On 16.06.2014 11:50, Felix Sasaki wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> Am 16.06.2014 um 10:37 schrieb Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza) 
> <support at oxygenxml.com <mailto: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
>> oXygen XML Editor and Author Support
>>
>> Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.2020
>> Fax: +40-251-461482
>> support at oxygenxml.com
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>
>> 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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