Thread: JRE 1.5 doc question

I have what is probably a really dumb question. I'm an intern filling in for our tech writer and my boss asked me to update the system requirements for our application. He said:

"A Java error is seen in the (App name) Server app (JMX as well) when it is configured to use JRE 1.5. The JMX Server bath file was pointed at a 1.5 JRE. To work around the problem, I pointed JMX to a 1.6 version of the JRE. So... it looks like we need to update our system requirements in our Server docs."

But when I look at our system requirements, they don't actually refer to a 1.5 JRE. They refer repeatedly to 1.4 and to Java 5.0. I read some stuff online that said Java 5.0 actually refers to 1.5+. So now I'm REALLY confused about what I actually need to edit.

Supported platforms and minimum requirements for these configurations:

*
Windows
o Microsoft Windows XP SP 3, Windows 2003 SP 1, or Windows 2008
o 512 MB RAM
o Intel Pentium 4 with 2.0 GHz or greater
o 100 MB free hard disk space
*

Linux
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 5 (32-bit version)
o 512 MB RAM
o Intel Pentium 4 with 2.0 GHz or greater
o 100 MB free hard disk space

Additionally, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) version 5.0 is required for all configurations.

JMX Client

When using a Java 5.0-based application acting as the client to a remotely running (App name) Server JMX server, you will need the following:

* Any platform that supports Java 5.0
* Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) version 5.0

Java 1.4 client

When using a Java 1.5-based application using the foundatino-java14client.jar extraction toolkit library to connect to a remotely-running (App name) Server JMX Server, you will need the following:

* Any platform that supports Java 1.4 or later
* Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.4 or later.

I'm totally confused. Any idea what I am actually supposed to edit? Thanks for any tips you can give me...

Yeah as of 1.2 Java is also known as Java 2 just like 1.5 is known as Java 5.0 and 1.7 will most likely be Java 7.0.

See Java versioning and terminology, 1.6 vs 6.0 openjdk vs sun - Stack Overflow

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