Ask a Jedi: What version of the JRE is bundled with CFMX?

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Dutch Rapley asks:

What version of the JRE is bundled with ColdFusion MX 7?

Let me be a little more precise. I'm running the Standard Edition, which doesn't include drivers for Oracle. No biggie, I can download the JDBC drivers from Oracle's site and use "Other" when I register my datasources in the CF Admin. When you go to the download site, Oracle prives different drivers/classes depending upon which version of the JDK you have installed. Hence, it's good to know the version of the JRE is bundled with ColdFusion MX 7.

This is rather easy to find out. Go to your CF Admin, click on System Information, and the JRE will be listed under JVM Details. I'm pretty sure this information will exist in CFMX 6 as well.

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Archived Comments

Comment 1 by Dutch Rapley posted on 7/27/2005 at 9:30 PM

Cool, good to know! Thanks for the prompt response.

Comment 2 by Al Everett posted on 7/27/2005 at 11:06 PM

CFMX 6.1 does indeed display JVM information under "System Information" in the ColdFusion Administrator.

Comment 3 by PaulH posted on 7/28/2005 at 12:21 AM

seems kind of whimpy ;-)

jre=createObject("java","java.lang.System");
JREversion=jre.getProperty("java.runtime.version");
JVMversion=jre.getProperty("java.vm.version");
writeoutput("JRE version #JREversion# JVM version #JVMversion#");

Comment 4 by Chris posted on 8/19/2005 at 1:44 AM

How do you install the JDBC drivers for Oracle on linux?