JAVA Virtual Machine Error

[John Seiwert]

I'm running a Dell Latitude with XP Professional
installed. I have all the windows updates, and the
latest JAVA runtime also installed.

I'm trying to install a Proj Mgmt product called Niku
WorkBench (Niku Portfolio Manager 5.2.1) from a clients
network server so I can use their tool of choice. I run
the install process and all seems well until a DOS window
pops open, stating... "error: Java Virtual Machine did
not initialize or could not be found -- not correctly
installed". This message disappears and I get the ... do
you want to send a report to Microsoft... message. This
message tells me that the Microsoft Visual J++ COM
Registration Tool has encountered a problem and must shut
down. I've both said yes and no to sending the report.
Once I restart, at the install processes suggestion, I
try to launch the product.

It tells me that it's "Unable to connect to the
application server:. Invalid Pointer."

Is there an XP reason I can't get this installation to
work? My client is confused by it as well.

 

[Jim Byrd]

HI John - May depend upon which Java VM you have installed, MS or Sun,
and/or you may need to reinstall the VM. Some programs (although happily
very few) are preferential about this. Here's info on installing both (they
co-exist well):

You can test whether Java is working on your machine at the following
sites:

http://www.pocoso.de/pocoso052.html
http://www.clan.lib.ri.us/clan/javatest.html
http://www.fitwise.com/testjava.asp (both 1.0 and 1.1 and what's
installed)
http://coglab.wadsworth.com/support/browsercheck.html
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/webct/browser_detect.html

and you can test Javascript here:
http://www.dancespots.net/browsertest.htm

and check whether you have the MS VM installed and which version here:
http://www.visualware.com/support/javasupport.html

Be aware, however, that after Sept. 30, 2004, MS will apparently no longer
be distributing Java or providing any support for Java including
security fixes. (It's unclear as to how 6/26/03 court decision will
affect this) See here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/news/jre.asp, and
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/java/ ,and more recently here:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle....RBAELCFEY?type=technologyNews&storyID=3572282
so you
might want to start thinking about the future.

You can get the Sun Java J2SE RunTimes or SDK here:
http://java.sun.com/downloads/index.html (all versions - select using
the dropdown)

Sun also offers an automatic download and install of the 1.4 Java
plug-in here: http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html



For the MS Java VM, you may need to install v.3809 prior to upgrading
to v. 3810 if you didn't previous have MS Java v. 3805 or 3809
installed.

If your OS is Win2000 SP2, SP3 but NOT SP4 then you can download and
install the MS Java VM v. 3809 from here:
http://download.windowsupdate.com/m..._510A502BA8F9B6F19230BB2BCCE87D5474AC9DCD.exe
or here:
http://www.biologylab.awlonline.com...icrosoft.Q810030_W2K_SP4_5849/Q810030_W2K.exe

For Win2000 SP4, you'll need to re-install v.3805, from here:
http://www.nhyrvana.com/files/pop.cgi?file=win2kmsjavx86.zip It will
download as Pop.zip. Just unzip it and then execute the resultant
msjavx86. This is the only version that I know of that will re-install
under SP4.

For all other OS's:

Download and install the MS Java VM v. 3809 from one of the links here:
http://www.nhyrvana.com/files/pop.cgi?file=3809.exe (it will be named
pop.exe), or here:
http://www.biologylab.awlonline.com...XP/com_microsoft.javavm_3809_5853/msjavwu.exe,
or here:
http://secinfo.huji.ac.il/patches/Win-xp/msjavwu.exe


Then upgrade to v. 3810:

For all OS's except Win2k, obtain v. 3810 here:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1050022631

For all versions of Win2k - SP2, SP3 or SP4 - obtain v. 3810 here:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-9b18-423356321682/Q816093_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe

Both Java VM's can co-exist on your machine quite nicely. Just select
which one you want to use in Tools|Internet Options|Advanced and restart
all IE browsers. Here, courtesy of Michel Gallant, MVP Security, is a
tiny utility which allows you to toggle and view status of your current
Java VM vendor associated with IE:
http://pages.istar.ca/~neutron/SelectIEJVM

A note from Mitch Gallant:

"One note about the JVM Selector utility:
If/when you install a new version of Sun J2SE, you need to manually
select to have Sun JVM as default JVM for IE (in install), or after
install
via the JavaPlugin control panel. This generates the necessary win32
registry
entries, which must be present for the utility to know about JavaPlugin.
After that, the utility should work properly."



--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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[Alex Nichol]

I'm running a Dell Latitude with XP Professional
installed. I have all the windows updates, and the
latest JAVA runtime also installed.

I'm trying to install a Proj Mgmt product called Niku
WorkBench (Niku Portfolio Manager 5.2.1) from a clients
network server so I can use their tool of choice. I run
the install process and all seems well until a DOS window
pops open, stating... "error: Java Virtual Machine did
not initialize or could not be found -- not correctly
installed".

When you say the latest Java run time, do you mean Microsoft's 'virtual
machine', or Sun's?

Do a Start - Run of
Wjview
which if MS VM is installed will come up with a screen giving in the top
line the version. If it does not, you have not got the MS engine.
Also check the final group - build - is 3810 if it *does* come up

Sun sued MSoft, and the ruling in the case prohibits MS from making
'their' engine available as a download any more

You can still get a 3805 or 3809 build from some sites that are *not*
MSoft sites - and MSoft is not going to object.
eg 3805 from Http://www.bigblackglasses.com/staff/downloads/msjavx86.exe

Once you have such an older version you can get the 816093 'critical
security update' which is effectively a complete build, 3810, and
getting and running that would probably repair your system if the wjview
window appears but things still do not initialise

Also, if you have Sun's version installed as well, I would go to its
Control Panel applet and on the browser page uncheck its use with
Internet explorer. That might also affect things