[Freecats-Dev] Re: OmegaT - Java version 1.4 should not be required

[Henri Chorand]

Keith Godfrey wrote:
> Hi all, just a quick message.  OmegaT was designed to run on JVM 1.2, 
> and while I'm not sure if that is still possible, it is certainly 
> possible to run under JVM 1.3 (or at least to run under the Sun 1.3.1 
> Linux distribution, as that is where I do almost all of my testing and 
> development)
>
> It is recommended to use JVM 1.4, as Sun has upgraded many elements of 
> the java virtual machine, including performance issues, display quality 
> and varius bug fixes.  If someone finds a bug that prevents OmegaT from 
> running under 1.3, please let me know so I can try to resolve it.

Thanks for your feed-back.

Keith, as you will have guessed, the bunch of us are not computer freaks,
and we also use various OSes here - mostly WinCrows, but I've got a Linux
box at home, and there also are a couple of Mc OSXers (well, at least Kirk).

Charles Stewart told us not long ago:
>> The recent brouhaha about "java is inefficient, even Sun
>> says so" applies *only* to Sun's own JVM.  IBM's JVM is
>> better, and we can compile to native C using gcc+CLASSPATH.

So, before we all start installing a reliable (read: non-MS) JVM on our
whatever hardware we've got, could Keith and Charles please provide us 
with some JVM background info?

Also, I read things about incompatibilities between some versions of
some JVMs, but I'm not sure I remember well. Could you provide some
guidelines about which version to install and which one to avoid - the
usual "Java for Mere Mortals" stuff, if such a thing exists ;-))

For what's worth, I've tested Sun's stuff in my office's Win PCs (can't 
remember its version...) and it worked quite well (I can't say anything 
about performance, as I don't yet use Java for serious work).

Henri