Java version newer than 1.4.2?

[BlueScreenOfTOM]

Hello,

I'm trying to run a custom Java app on the bluehost servers. I can see the default version installed appears to be 1.4.2 but I need at least 1.5. If there is a newer version installed elsewhere on the BH servers, can someone point me there please?

Thanks!

[Early Out]

Java is installed on your PC, not on the servers. Go to http://www.java.com, and install the latest (1.6.5, I believe).

I don't believe there's any way to run a Java application on the BH servers.

[BlueScreenOfTOM]

I'm running java 1.6.02 on my local machine.

It is possible to run a Java app on the BH servers... you either need SSH access (which I don't have and I won't have because I'm not sending them a copy of my driver's license) or you need to create a PHP script to launch the java app, which is what I did. When I do that, I get an error (from the Java install on the BH server) telling me I'm using the wrong version of Java. I tried recompiling my app on my local machine in the Java 1.4 compliance mode but that didn't seem to make a difference.

Hence, I need to know the fully qualified path to a newer JRE on the BH boxes, if there is one.

[Necron99]

It is possible to run a Java app on the BH servers...

To be brutally frank: No.

When I do that, I get an error (from the Java install on the BH server) telling me I'm using the wrong version of Java.

Java is not installed on any Bluehost server.

Hence, I need to know the fully qualified path to a newer JRE on the BH boxes, if there is one.

There isn't.

Sorry to be so terse. Don't know how else to put it. Do a Google search for Java (or J2EE) hosting if you want to run Java apps on a remote host.

Dave

[BlueScreenOfTOM]

Please explain why when I run the following on my bluehost account:


<?php
echo shell_exec("java -version 2>&1");
?>


I get the following output:

java version "1.4.2" gcj (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


I'm NOT trying to run a web application. I understand you need Tomcat or Websphere or something along those lines to do that. I'm just trying to run a plain old java application.

[Necron99]

You have my humblest apology.

Seems that I don't know as much as I thought I did. It never occurred to me that gcj might be installed.

Again, sorry (he said, red-faced).

Dave

[akc42]

Hence, I need to know the fully qualified path to a newer JRE on the BH boxes, if there is one.

Why don't you store a later JRE in your home/bin directory and run that?