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January 12, 2012
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Coldfusion 9.0.1 and Java 7 on 64 bit machine

  • January 12, 2012
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I have found that I am unable to get Coldfusion 9.0.1 to work with Java 7 (1.7.0_x) on 64 bit windows 2008.  I tried both Java 1.7.0_0 and 1.7.0_2.  When I point Coldfusion to it and try to start the only thing that is logged is it can't load the jvm.dll.  It is pointing to the correct location with the JDK installed.  Any one have any ideas?

Thanks,

Jim

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    Correct answer Dave Watts

    Don't use Java 7? There's no reason to think that CF will work properly with it. It's not at all supported by Adobe.

    Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

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    jim1234Author
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    January 12, 2012

    Didn't know that.  When I searched for it, nothing came up in that respect.  Thanks.

    I guess that's just one of the trade offs when using a product like Coldfusion, you can't always use the latest and greatest of the supporting products.  But for me it's worth it to still use CF as trying to learn and support all the other products would be just too much.

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    January 12, 2012

    Well, getting a current version of CF to support a new major release of Java is quite a bit of work! I suspect that CF 10 will support Java 7. In any case, I don't think there's anything especially exciting about Java 7 unless you're actually doing Java programming, in which case you can put the Java 7 JDK on your machine alongside all the other Java JDKs.

    Oh, and also, things are a lot better than they used to be. For many years, CF required a very old version of Java (1.4) that was no longer even really supported by Sun! CF has gotten a lot better with regard to Java version support in the last few years.

    Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

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    January 12, 2012

    Don't use Java 7? There's no reason to think that CF will work properly with it. It's not at all supported by Adobe.

    Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

    Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC
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