#23 javaw quits using current jre; 1.4.2 is end-of-lifed

[Graham Toal]

This doesn't execute when using jre-6u20-windows-i586, the current release. I see all the comments about using 1.4.2 and would happily install it in a separate directory, biut the Sun site says it is end-of-life and I can't find an installer.

[Anonymous]

I found a way to launch delineate with java 6, I downloaded the xalan-java package from
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xml/xalan-j
then I put the org directory (xalan-java/xalan/org/) inside the delineate jar archive merging the directory with the already existing one. I hope this may help.

[Graham Toal]

Thanks - that went some way to making it work - I can now execute potrace, but when I try autotrace (on the default test image) it crashes:

java.io.IOException: Premature end of file.
at org.apache.batik.dom.util.SAXDocumentFactory.createDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.batik.dom.util.SAXDocumentFactory.createDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.batik.dom.svg.SAXSVGDocumentFactory.createDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.batik.dom.svg.SAXSVGDocumentFactory.createSVGDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.batik.bridge.DocumentLoader.loadDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.batik.swing.svg.SVGDocumentLoader.run(Unknown Source)

[I wasn't sure if I mis-read your instructions - there was no existing 'org' directory in delineate.jar to merge the one from xalan with. I did put the org hierarchy in the delineate.jar file anyway and got a lot further, so I guessed that was what you meant. (ie merge the jars, notr merge the orgs)]

Thanks for the help, at least I have somewhere to start from now,

Graham

[Anonymous]

Sorry Graham, I was wrong , I already had the folder org because I had previously changed the jar file, however your procedure is correct.
I am using autotrace and it works well, then maybe you can try a different java version or a different java package.