Re: Java Electric installation issue

At 12:42 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote:
>I've just joined the bug list so this has probably been answered before,
>but I don't know of an archive that could be searched or a more complete
>FAQ to find an answer to my question.  (It probably isn't even a bug in the
>program but a documentation issue.) This is the first time I've tried to
>run a Java application so no telling what might not be setup properly.
>
>Trying to get Electric version 8.01 running on Sun (Solaris). I run the
>following command line with response: (I've put in the complete path to
>java since the one found by my $path is much older.)
>
>% /apps/java/j2re1_3_0_02/bin/java   -jar electric-8.01.jar.zip
>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: 
>com/sun/electric/Launcher (Unsupported major.minor version 48.0)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:486)
>         at 
> java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:111)
>         at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:248)
>         at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
>         at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
>         at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>         at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:297)
>         at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:286)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:253)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:313)

You have to unzip the file first.  The thing that you give as a "-jar" 
parameter must end in ".jar".

    -Steven Rubin

You might want to wait about a week for the next release of Electric.

Electric 8.02 is due out at the end of next week.  I will send another 
message when it is ready.

    -Steven Rubin