[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-18457) EAP 6.1 fails to start on Windows 7 - need to warn users if they use wrong java

[Rob Stryker (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-18457?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13008428#comment-13008428 ] 

Rob Stryker commented on JBIDE-18457:
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To be 100% clear, if the execution environment is java6, and the user has only java7 and java8 as installed jres, there is absolutely no reason or logic to choose the java7 over the java8. Previous jiras were asking that we used the highest version, subsequent jiras were asking to use the one closest in version to the required. These two use cases obviously conflict, the former basically asking me to use java8, the latter asking me to use java7. 

The current logic will not prioritize the 'newest' (java8) nor will it prioritize closest in version (java7).  Java7 and Java8 runtimes have absolutely equal chances of being chosen for a java6 execution environment. If the user wishes to change this, he should set default vm's for his execution environments, or set specific vms for his runtime. There is no way for me to satisify both requests, because the two requests conflict. 

> EAP 6.1 fails to start on Windows 7 - need to warn users if they use wrong java
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>
>                 Key: JBIDE-18457
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-18457
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: server
>    Affects Versions: 4.2.0.CR1
>            Reporter: Martin Malina
>            Assignee: Rob Stryker
>             Fix For: 4.2.0.CR2
>
>
> This is followup of Brian's comments in JBIDE-16066 where he couldn't get EAP 6.1 to start on Windows 7. I tried the same and get the same result. Everything works fine on my mac.
> 1. Start JBDS 8.0.0.CR1
> 2. Download EAP 6.1 via runtime detection
> 3. Start the server
> In my case, at first I got "Starting jboss-eap-6.1: (0 %)" in the status bar and nothing else for like 5 minutes, then the server console showed up and showed:
> {code}
> 15:28:51,082 INFO  [org.jboss.modules] (main) JBoss Modules version 1.2.0.Final-redhat-1
> 15:28:51,704 INFO  [org.jboss.msc] (main) JBoss MSC version 1.0.4.GA-redhat-1
> 15:28:51,824 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBAS015899: JBoss EAP 6.1.0.GA (AS 7.2.0.Final-redhat-8) starting
> {code}
> And with this the status bar changed to 100 % and the progress view shows:
> Preparing launch deletage.
> It's been like this at least 5 minutes now. The server is not started.
> I checked with Brian and he just didn't witness the first part where there was no console, but he did get what I got after 5 minutes - his server was stuck and would never really start.
> ATM I only tried this the one way - EAP 6.1 downloaded via runtime detection.
> In my case I have Oracle jdk 1.8, in Brian's case it was 1.7, so it doesn't seem to matter.
> Right now I haven't tried other server versions.



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