I am trying to run a quick evaluation test on Servoy, on a “not officially supported” version of Windows (I don’t have an officially supported version available for testing the eval). So I downloaded an eval copy that seemed to download perfectly. From what I read in these forums, if I can get the software installed, it should run (I think) – at least to the extent that I can evaluate it. However, the installer completely fails to run on my OS. (The “busy” cursor flashes for about 3 seconds, then goes back to a normal cursor, and the screen doesn’t display anything at all.)
So, I simply want to ask: which installer is this? I want to verify its minimum OS requirements.
Also: is there any way I can install the software without going through the standard Windows installer?
I went to Sun – it said the highest supported JRE that could be installed on this OS was in this file: jre-1_5_0_15-windows-i586-p.exe – which (according to the servoy docs I saw) is high enough to run servoy developer.
When I tried to install that, it said it was already installed – the JRE installer exited and said “JRE installed successfully.” I don’t know or remember what packages (if any) that I currently run actually use the JRE – so I suppose I can’t guarantee that it is installed correctly and working.
I will try downloading the .jar file you linked to, and see if I can run it with the java runtime I have.
I’m not at all familiar with java (which is one reason we need servoy! ) – but when I download that .jar file, open a dos window, type “java servoy_installer.jar” – I get:
C:\proj>java -classpath c:\proj servoy_installer.jar
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: servoy_installer/jar
(If I leave off the classpath, I get the same error.)
The .jar file is definitely in that working directory.
Usually .jar files are automatically set to be opened by Java on Windows, so you should be able to just doubleclick the .jar file.
If that fails somehow, usually, you can rightclick the .jar and select “Open with” and there you normally can select a Java version.
Last resort is the commandline option Joas hinted.
Note that we offer both a cross platform installer and a Windows executable installer, because Windows Vista is very restrictive to installer in general.
Double and right-clicking wasn’t working – especially since I couldn’t see the error messages on the screen before the java window vanished.
The commandline worked pretty well. It went through the full install, and then seeemed to get stuck in an infinite loop at the very end (reporting a NullPointer exception). Tomorrow, I’ll see if it managed to install enough stuff to run.
Thanks for the help!
Edit:
The install worked well enogh that I would have been able to do some basic evaluation testing on my Win98 system – however, servoy made Win98 so unstable that the entire OS would crash every 3 or 4 minutes, after just a little bit of clicking around in servoy. So, i’m going to be waiting until I have an XP machine available, for doing the eval.