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Manual Install of Java Access Bridge

The Sun Java Access Bridge has an automatic install and a manual installation procedure. Most of the time the automatic one works fine, but there are times it does not. This seems especially true of third party applications that use their own included Java runtime environment (JRE) packaged with their product. When the automatic install does not seem to work try these steps.

Manual Installation steps:

All files to be copied are in <ACCESSBRIDGE_HOME>\install\installfiles

where <ACCESSBRIDGE_HOME> is the folder where the access bridge was unzipped.

 

  1. Copy all .dll files to your windows\system32 folder.
  2. Copy access-bridge.jar and jaccess-1_x.jar to the jre\lib\ext folder of your jvm. jaccess-1_x.jar depends on the version of jvm you are installing into. For example if it is jdk 1.4.1, then you would use jaccess-1_4.jar.
  3. Copy accessibilities.properties to the jre\lib folder for your jvm.

This entry was posted on Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 10:40 am and is filed under Accessibility, Tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Manual Install of Java Access Bridge”

  1. Mitchell Smith Says:
    October 26th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    The documentation contained in accessbridge-2_0_1-manual_install.zip \ doc \ setup.html suggests that the accessibility.properties file should be in jre\lib\ext, rather than jre\lib as suggested above.