Funny you should mention that.

When attempting to run LimeWire on a Win2k machine I have, the javaw process starts, using 100% of the CPU, and LimeWire doesn't launch.

Of course, java -jar makes it all work fine.

Do you have the JRE installed, the JDK installed, or both on your w2k machine? Which installer did you use?

Both, 1.4.1_01 FCS, which seems to work with everything I do involving Java.

Which installer did you use to install LimeWire? If you run the executable directly, nothing happens? Did you customize your registry in any way?

Thanks.

I used the Windows installer.....what else?

There are two windows installer -- one for that allows you to specify language, one that doesn't. There's also a zip file with the raw files, and you also could have checked it out directly from CVS.

Guys,

I've started a new thread on a related problem: it seems that the java bug/incompatibility doesn't allow for moving shared files to a partition other than the system!

I guesst if I want to get involved in this I'm going to have to learn Java -- can any one recommend a good book?

The only book I ever read on Java was Oreilly's "Java in a Nutshell" - it's sufficient - if you don't want to do it professionally.

You could try here for starters...

Hope this helps....

I would give the "Core" books from Sun a shot -- both volume 1 and volume 2. Those will teach you the language, as will "The Java Language Specification" and "The Java Programming Language." Then, to write good java, I would highly recommend "Effective Java."