Windows Installer Asking For JRE

[Mohammad Ziaul Ahsan]

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) java-version.jpg
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.

[Martin Lippert]

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

[Mohammad Ziaul Ahsan]

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

[Kris De Volder]

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.

[Martin Lippert]

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