java runtime

Platform: Windows XP SP2. I've got two versions of Java runtime installed:
1.5.0_09 and 1.6.0._03 on my machine. Are they likely to conflict with each
other? Should I just keep them as it is or is 1.5.0_09 dispensable? I don't
know.
Oivind

My machine poped up a message yesterday saying that a "java update was
available and did I want to download and install" which I did.
When I looked in add/remove programs there was two of them, so I uninstalled
the earliest one and all seems ok.

"Oivind" <oeivinr@online.no> wrote in message
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> Platform: Windows XP SP2. I've got two versions of Java runtime installed:
> 1.5.0_09 and 1.6.0._03 on my machine. Are they likely to conflict with
> each other? Should I just keep them as it is or is 1.5.0_09 dispensable? I
> don't know.
> Oivind
>

Oivind-
Yes you should uninstall the previous version(s) since the updates don't remove or
overwrite them, as most program updates do.
The latest version is 6- update 3.

~Gary


"Oivind" <oeivinr@online.no> wrote in message
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Platform: Windows XP SP2. I've got two versions of Java runtime installed:
1.5.0_09 and 1.6.0._03 on my machine. Are they likely to conflict with each
other? Should I just keep them as it is or is 1.5.0_09 dispensable? I don't
know.
Oivind

"Oivind" <oeivinr@online.no> wrote in message
news:OWgjmBCKIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Platform: Windows XP SP2. I've got two versions of Java runtime installed:
> 1.5.0_09 and 1.6.0._03 on my machine. Are they likely to conflict with
> each other? Should I just keep them as it is or is 1.5.0_09 dispensable? I
> don't know.
> Oivind
>
To be honest it is more to save disk space than to avoid conflicts. Each
Java JRE takes up 100+ MB of disk space and you only need one at a time.