Windows Installer Asking For JRE

Hi,

I have tried to install STS 2.9.2spring-tool-suite-3.0.0.RELEASE-e4.2-win32-x86_64-installer.exe and springsource-tool-suite-2.9.2.RELEASE-e3.7.2-win32-x86_64-installer.exe. But everytime I am getting the message "This application requires a Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0". My working environment:

1) OS - Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit)
2) JDK - 1.7 (64-bit) Attachment 5219
3) JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_05

I had JDK 1.6 but removed for installation purpose and it is removed from registry as well. So, only one version now.

Can any one help to resolve this issue?

Thanks.

Hey!

That sounds like a bug in the installer check for the JDK, but I am not able to reproduce it on my Windows 7 machine. Therefore it is hard to analyze and give an exact answer. Does this message appear right when starting the installer? Maybe you haven't installed a JRE or that JRE is not included in your PATH environment variable?

As a workaround you could download the zipped version of STS, extract that ZIP file and use that installation. If you would like to use a specific JDK to run STS in that case, you would need to add a "-vm <path-to-javaw.exe>" in your STS.ini, but usually it works without that.

HTH,
Martin

Hi Martin,

Thanks a lot for your advice. I had jdk installed and PATH set to jdk. Now I installed jre and PATH set to jre\bin. And the installer started without asking "This application requires a Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0".

Regards,
-Zia

Just a word of warning, some of the the tools (.e.g m2e support, Groovy/Grails and possibly others) in STS require a JDK and will not be fully functional with just a JRE.

Hey!

Just an additional note: The installer itself seems to require a JRE installed to run, STS/GGTS then needs a JDK to run with (for the reasons Kris mentioned above).

Cheers,
-Martin