Recently i had a chance to work on enhancing a few BPEL components and had a few rough days installing Jdeveloper on windows.

[1]  is the version of Jdeveloper I needed for legacy requirements and when i downloaded the windows version. It always gave me the same error.

A few things i tried to resolve them:

• Run the exe as admin.
• extract the exe and run the command “java -jar installer.jar”
• Tried with 11.1.1.6 the maximum version i could use and still ended up with the same error.

So i finally gave a shot at installing the generic version and it worked successfully. It was surprising to see that it worked.

A generic version is a common installer that works on both linux and windows. It is a jar so you’d do “java -jar installer.jar” and you’ve jdev installed.