[nik777]

Hi all,

Firstly, may I say I am very impressed with what I've seen of OpenFOAM.

I have a query regarding the installation - I hope it doesn't appear that I'm complaining.

OpenFOAM runs fine for me (as far as I have tested), but the installation of OpenFOAM has broken my existing JAVA installation.

I develop and use a lot of JAVA on my machine, and cannot afford to have JAVA broken by another application.

Is there something I've done wrong, or can do differently to get OpenFOAM to coexist with my java installation?

The problem is that the OpenFOAM .basrc unconditionally sets JAVA_HOME, JAVA_PATH and JAVA_ROOT to the OpenFOAM java installation dir.
It also sets CLASSPATH to '.'.

This breaks my other java applications which I wish to run using the VM (JDK 1.6) I have already installed in /usr/java/jdk, and with a CLASSPATH which includees various extensions including JMF and JOGL.

One 'simple' solution which seems apparent is to have the various OpenFOAM tools source the .bashrc file, rather than relying on it being sourced *before* those tools are run. In this way, the OpenFOAM environment settings would be per-process, rather than for every shell I ever run.

However, there is quite probably a better solution already provided, and if so I would be very thankful if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks again for such a powerful took.

Cheers!
Nik.