[7u4] .jar association broken on Windows

[Dalibor Topic]

On 5/2/12 10:43 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have tried JDK 7u4 (32/64-bit) and JRE 7u4 (32-bit), on a Win7 (x64)
> box and a WinXP (32-bit) box, and after installation all .jar
> association has been removed.
> 
> So now I cannot double-click any JAR files in Windows Explorer to run
> them. I previously had 7u2 on the Win7 box and 6u31 on the WinXP box,
> and they were working okay.
> 
> This is of course rather annoying - I would like to know if this is
> just me or have I missed something important?
> 

Thanks for reporting this. Henrik posted the following regarding this issue 
on his blog:
https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_java_7_as

"Update: After posting JRE 7 Update 4 on java.com we have received reports 
of an installer issue that impacts some Windows configurations. We have 
reverted back to JRE 6 while we wait for an analysis of this report to 
complete. We expect to be able to switch back to 7u4 shortly."

cheers,
dalibor topic
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