Fri, 01/08/2010 - 14:53
The docs are not out of date, just silent about JDK 1.6. We have tried Presto on JDK 1.6, but it has not been fully tested and vetted. So the documentation does not say that we support it.
I'm not familiar on the Eclipse questions, so I will let others respond to that.
Sara, technical writer/jackbe
Mon, 01/11/2010 - 07:59
I’m running on W2K8 SE (64bit). I lived dangerously yesterday and installed Presto against JDK1.6_17 and it seems to run OK (although perhaps that could be the WSDL problem I saw yesterday?).
Question is this—Presto doco says “JDK5” only (which of course is at end of life). I’m about to install the Eclipse so I want to be *sure* that I’m using the correct JDK. Tried searching the JackBe site but hard to sort through the questions to find authoritative answers.
On Eclipse, keep in mind that 32-bit JDK doesn’t even install on Server 2008. So I have a 64-bit install, thus I *assume* that a 64-bit Eclipse would be correct. Of course such a thing is not prebuilt but http://blog.jadira.co.uk/blog/2008/6/28/eclipse-ganymede.html seems to provide a roadmap on creating a 64-bit version of Ganymede (that appears to be the preferred solution from http://www.jackbe.com/prestodocs/v2.7.0/prestoadmin/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?context=prestoadmin&topic=installMSremote).
So is Presto doco simply not up-to-date? Does Presto support JDK6 or just JDK5?
And, for the JDK installation itself—I put on the basic JDK1.6_17. Should I deinstall that one and install a more complete version (i.e. with EE functionality)?