what version of Java should be used for installing IdP 2.3.8

[Peter Schober]

* XiaoXia Dong <x-dong at northwestern.edu> [2013-03-26 22:46]:
> When I installed IdP 2.3.8, it also asks for JAVA, which version
> should I use?  I used JDK that downloaded from Sun site. My Idp did
> not start, but it did not give me any error logs either from tomcat
> or IdP itself.

Don't do that. Downloading any package from anywhere /once/ will leave
you with vulnerable software (the JVM) in no time.
Instead use the packages and mechanisms appropriate for your platform
and keep the software up-to-date that way.
(While theoretically you /could/ do that with manually downloaded and
extracted packages downloaded from Oracle -- there's no Sun site
anymore, of course -- I doubt anyone does this in practice.)
-peter