I am using NT4 sp6 too, as you know Martyn thank’'s for your previous hellp )and I know from own experince that you are able to install Java 1.5.6 as the most on NT4. Too bad, I know, and Wildfire 3.2.0 is only running with Java 1.6 and that is the reason for the interruption at install. Happened to me too.
And I just have reinstalled my production server (NT4) a week ago, and that server is not only running wildfire…
JM-939 is the issue to change Wildfire that one can complie it with JRE 1.6. It makes no sense to add comments there as the issue is fixed. You can anyhow create there a JIRA account, then you are able to vote for issues and can leave comments.
Wildfire 3.2.0 runs fine with JRE 1.5.0 - some of the beta builds did run only with JRE 1.6.0.
Extracting wildfire_3_2_0.zip and starting it should work if you have JRE 1.5 installed, even on NT.
My index.jsp displays:
Version: Wildfire Enterprise 3.2.0
JVM Version and Vendor: 1.5.0_06 Sun Microsystems Inc. – Java HotSpot™ Server VM
Sun does not support Windows NT so it makes no sense to try to open a bug there. It may be time for you to update your server either to a current Linux version or to Windows 2003.
Sun does not support Windows NT so it makes no sense to try to open a bug there. It may be time for you to update your server either to a current Linux version or to Windows 2003.
LG
Thanks, it2000
I try ask to sun, increase list supported operating systems…
I did a fresh “installation” by just extracting the zip file to c:\tmp.
Do you have a spare NT server where you can do the same? If you don’'t have one then you must shutdown Wildfire before you continue.
Start c:\tmp\wildfire\bin\wildfire.exe - this is fine to do basic tests, then run the setup process and select the embedded database (will be stored in c:\tmp\wildfire\embedded-db), so you will not modify your existing installation in any way. If you are using plugins download a new version of them as the plugin API did change. A few plugins are - as far as I know - not yet compatible with Wildfire 3.2.0.
If this works fine then we may think about migrating your existing installation.
will work on that. I have a spare install on a different machine. If this is working,how would the migrating be ? I am using the build-in database, no plugins so far, but noticed in a few post that those should be downloaded again and installed.
The installation with the install.exe doesn’‘t work, as it seems to try to install the new 1.6 Java and that is the culprit as on NT only 1.5.6 (if I am correct) is the furthests one can install. But your’'s ist showing 1.5…for the Java
as I had installed the 3.1.1 with the installer I had the java enviroment folder jre in the wildfire dir which I didn’'t delete.
The steps I did after all of the backups:
extracted the 3.2.0 into a directory of my choice.
copied the files over, actually folder by folder.
I started wildfire and got the message that the Java_Home enviroment is missing. I thought to overcome this error by leaving the jre directory (created from the 3.1.1. installer)in place.
I tried without any luck to set the enviroment JAVA_HOME to D:\wildfire\jre\bin\server or even D:\wildfire\jre\bin
as I don’'t have java directly installed by other means.
And my index.jsp shows as well
JVM Version and Vendor: 1.5.0_08 Sun Microsystems Inc. – Java HotSpot™ Server VM
If I translate the error message correct, I have to set this variable, but how ? Any helpful tips would be very appreciate.
Maybe it helps if you copy it to %programfiles%\Java\ - so you should have java.exe here: %programfiles%\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\java.exe
Can you install JDK 1.5.0_11 or any other 1.5 version (JDK, not JRE as the JRE usually does not contain a “server” JRE) on Windows NT or does this fail?
I can install jdk 1.5.0 had done this, but at that time didn’'t know about the Java_Home seetings and scrapped the whole thing. With a fresh download of the 3.1.1. installer I got it finally just fine installed.
So, I could install jdk 1.5.0. What’'s your idea ? Installing jdk , and go from there ?
It is impossible to increase list supported operating systems? Wanted see in list Windows NT 4.0
Answer from Sun:
Hi Mike,
Due to the end of life cycle of Windows NT(according to Microsoft), I’‘m afraid we are not able to add NT as a supported platform for Java 5 and Java 6 at this time. However, I would suggest you to post this idea on our forum for discussion. If there are a lot of users’’ concerns regarding this, we can consider that. Last but not least, Java 1.4.2 still supports Windows NT.
turbo, Martyn and all NT OS user I offer come to Sun discussion forums for discuss idea increase list supported operating systems .