How to update to 8.1

> The Tools > Update Center says there are no updates available yet the Sun site has 8.1

> available for download?

The update center provides updates to a release, that are made available for bugfixes for that release. The update center does not support upgrading from one release to another.

There are either as yet no updates to JSE8 on UC (or perhaps there are and you have applied them all); but those updates are only for jse8.

- A new release like jse8.1 needs to be installed via the jse8.1 installer.

- The two release should coexist without problems. So, instead of installing jse8.1 over jse8, jse8.1 should preferably be installed in its own folder.

- If jse8 is not needed further, then of course it can be uninstalled; but i think it would be better to keep the two separate, install them in different locations and uninstall whichever one is not needed. That way they will not interfere with each other.

- Uninstaller will only delete files that the installer itself created and will not delete any user created files like projects. In any case, the uninstaller only deletes files from ide installation directory and it is very unlikely that project files will be found there.

Pl. also take a look at http://blogs.sun.com/karthikr/entry/jse_directories

KarthikRa at 2007-7-28 17:31:22 >

You are right. But with JSE and NetBeans, the main problem in doing so is dealing with the bundled servers. Each version of jse/netbeans bundles the latest tomcat/SJSAS and servers cannot be readily updated.

Another reason is that different versions of jse/netbeans support different versions of the servers. Letting them coexist on the same machine lets user use different releases if they are interesting in supporting multiple server versions.

By the way, have you considered moving to NetBeans from JSE?

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5192837&tstart=0

KarthikRa at 2007-7-28 17:31:22 >