If you have any advice/documentation for what is needed to provide the
"untangled" Java set up, I would appreciate your passing it on.
I can't find any doc that explains what the Java requirements are. And when
it doesn't work, it just doesn't work, and I resort to the dsmmfc.exe
version.
Thanks
Wanda
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Roger Deschner <rogerd AT uic DOT edu> wrote:
> As people start installing Version 6.1 clients, we're starting to get a
> lot of problems and complaints about the new Java GUI Client.
>
> 1. If you don't have your Java configuration just right, it won't work
> at all. I've gotten quite tired of coaching users through untangling
> their Java setups which were imposed upon them by some other Java app. I
> thought the idea of Java was to make things less dependent on the
> underlying environment of OS, drivers, and hardware, but it's the
> opposite. It's really very delicate, and dependent on everything else.
>
> 2. It's sloooooow. So slow on many systems that you don't know if you
> clicked on something or not, so you click again. Bad things can happen
> when you do this. Even if nothing bad happens, it is still maddeningly
> sluggish. Twice the time to go through a wizard, such as to set up a
> scheduler. This is on a pretty fast new-ish machine running Vista Pro,
> as well as on an older XP machine, and a brand-new Win7 netbook.
>
> So I'm about to alter our installation scripts and documentation to
> create shortcuts to dsmmfc.exe - the old native non-Java GUI. Until I
> get this ironed out, we are only recommending the v6.1 client for
> Windows 7 users. We eagerly await the promised availability in 1H2010 of
> a v5.5 client that supports Windows 7. In the V6 client, IBM should
> continue to support dsmmfc.exe and update it as new features are added,
> perhaps even making it the default GUI client again. It just simply
> works better.
>
> Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rogerd AT uic DOT
> edu
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