Java Question

[MESA Boogie]

I was just checking in my ADD/REMOVE programs and I noticed that there are 3 entries for JAVA ....

J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 7
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 8
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 9

can I safely uninstall Update 7 and Update 8 ? ...

[jmtjet]

The consinsous is; yes you can delete the older entries. But, personally, if they're not hurting anything, I'd leave them.

[Tuttle]

You can, and probably should -- if nothing else, each one is about 70 MB.

Some badly written Java apps require a specific revision of the JRE to run, so by default when you install one it leaves all the existing versions on the system. Unless you have one of those apps (most people don't), you should uninstall the old one yourself because otherwise software can choose to run under an old version and have access to the vulnerabilities in it.

If you do get stuck with an app that requires a specific version, you can always just reinstall that JRE revision later.

[MESA Boogie]

thank you .... gonna head on over to the control panel and do some removing ...