The Java Virtual Machine Service

The service com.sun.star.java.JavaVirtualMachine gives access to a java virtual machine. This service is only usable in process, the given java virtual machine can then be accessed via Java Native Interface.

Hints can be given to the service to find the java installation. Just set the environment variable OO_JAVA_PROPERTIES to your java runtime library.

Under the operating system Windows an assignment of this environment variable could look as follows:

set OO_JAVA_PROPERTIES=RuntimeLib=d:\jdk1.3\jre\bin\hotspot\jvm.dll