Can't Run JDeveloper 11g on JDK 6_13 for Windows 64-bit

Question

Hi all,
When I attempt to run JDeveloper 11g (base install), and select my java.exe file from my JDK 6_13x64 installation I get the following error message:
"Unable to find Java Virtual Machine.
"To point to a location of a Java Virtual Machine, please refer to the Oracle9i JDeveloper Install Guide (jdev\install.html)."
In addition to the incorrect version number, the JDeveloper Install Guide makes no mention of this problem. I've found a few posts on this forum where people had this problem, but they're all pretty old, and none of them got satisfactory answers. A few possibilities mentioned in those posts that I've eliminated are as follows:
- I've confirmed that this is, indeed, the JDK, not just a JRE.
- This is the production version of JDeveloper 11g, not a technical preview, so it shouldn't require 1.5.
- There are no spaces in the paths to either the JDK or JDeveloper.
Has anyone found a solution to this problem?
Thanks much,
Avrom

Answer 1

Thanks, Shay. That does seem to work, and will suffice as a workaround for now. But are there plans to make JDeveloper compatible with the 64-bit edition of Java? It would be nice to get what I assume is a substantial performance enhancement from using it.
10:06 PM: Actually, it doesn't work very well. JDeveloper will start, but it has a lot of stability problems; it seems to freeze at 100% CPU usage (well, 25%, but I'm on a quad processor) at the drop of a hat, such as when I minimize, walk away for 90 minutes, and come back--once it even did it just when I tried to create a new application. I've installed this version of JDev on a 32-bit system and have found it to be generally quite stable, so I assume this is a problem with my setup.
Edited by: Avrom on May 10, 2009 10:06 PM