DrJava vs. Java 6 vs. Microsoft

Tony Perriello has discovered the problem with drjava on microsoft systems:

  http://groups.google.com/group/uw.cs.cs134/browse_thread/thread/a505eaff18c34afe

If you're using a microsoft system and running into problems, the short answer
is to remove java 6 and install java 5 instead.  You can get java 5 from

  http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp

Make sure you read the page carefully to download the right system.

It would also probably be best if you removed drjava at the same time you
removed java 6 and re-install it after you've installed java 5.

Note that one of the downloads bundles netbeans with the jdk, so you could skip
drjava entirely and use netbeans.

Thanks to Tony for the help.