From: "Matthew K. Williams" <matt@...>
Date: 2011-05-13T03:34:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Jruby -v failing with possible Java version issue

On Fri, 13 May 2011, Ruby Student wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is the output of the commands suggested:
>
> root@myserver # which java
> /usr/bin/java
>
> root@myserver # java -version
> java version "1.4.2"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 2.2)
> IBM J9SE VM (build 2.2, J2RE 1.4.2 IBM J9 2.2 Linux amd64-64
> j9xa64142-20061124 (JIT enabled)
> J9VM - 20061121_1035_LHdSMr
> JIT  - r7_level20061020_1803)

1.4.2 won't work.  You need java 1.6.  FWiW, Java 1.4 was sunsetted a 
number of years ago.  1.5 was sunset in 2009, I believe.

And IBM Java won't work.

Matt