Strings for missing or invalid Java (see STR_WARNING_JAVANOTFOUND and friends in include/svtools/strings.hrc) don't contain information about which bitness should be the required Java. But at least for Windows, this is essential, as endless duplicate questions on AskLibO show. As Oracle's Java site doesn't make it obvious for non-geeks that Java offered for download isn't the only one possible choice, people don't realize that we don't need *any* Java, but of specific bitness. The proposal is to add the bitness information to "Java missing" messages on Windows, like this: > %PRODUCTNAME requires a 64-bit Java runtime environment (JRE) to perform this task. > Please install a 64-bit JRE and restart %PRODUCTNAME. The 64-bit (32-bit) should only be added to Windows builds, as it seems that there's no such problem on other OSes.
Sounds reasonable but rather using a variable "%PRODUCTNAME requires a %BITNESS Java runtime environment (JRE)...". And I wonder how you distinguish between the different OS to have only one string. Ideally we also provide instructions how to proceed, i.e. where to download the installer.
tagezi committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=506e1396c34bb90c8d2c3679e3e84c3833b18869 tdf#115002 Including of bitness information into Java message on Windows It will be available in 6.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.