Java JRE not accepted

[DonB]

My system refuses to accept the Java JRE - says it doesn't exist in either of my Java program files on my C: drive. Any thoughts?

[Hagar Delest]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Make sure that you've a 32bit version. If yes and still no luck, search the forum, there are plenty of topics about Java issue, especially with a Microsoft component that has to be installed.

Please add '[Solved]' at the beginning of your first post title (edit button) if your issue has been fixed.

[thomasjk]

See http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/vi ... le#p276376 the last post by Bill.

[Bill]

OOo 3.1 predates the current JRE 7 and can't see it at all. Either update to AOO 3.4.1 or install the old and possibly unsafe JRE 6 which was packaged with OOo 3.1.

[Greengiant224]

OOo v3.1 uses the mscvr80.dll (dynamic link library).
Java v1.6 (32bit) uses the msvcr80.dll also.
These are the MS Visual C++ Runtime Libraries (2008), that both programs need to interact
with each other on windows os. Java v1.6 is/was maintained until February 2013.

AOO v3.4.1 have/will update to the current MS Visual C++ Redistributable (2010) (x86) Package.
This will enable AOO v3.4.1 to interact with Java v1.7 (32bit).

A SIMPLE WORKAROUND:
If you have Java v 1.7 (32bit) installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\
look in the plugin2 folder you will find a copy of msvcr100.dll.
Copy and paste this file into the C:\Program FIles (x86)\OpenOffice.org 3\program folder alongside
the current msvcr70.dll/msvcr80.dll. which are 2005/2008 respectively.

Shutdown AOO/OOo including the quickstarter (if you have it enabled). Fire up AOO/OOo
and see if it recognises your installed version of java.

Also this link may help:
http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/vi ... 21#p267331

Greengiant224