is a great open source graph visualization tool. I had encountered problems using it
on Windows 8.1 64-bit OS. I had Java 8 64-bit JDK installed on my machine. I read
some post mentioning that we should use the gelphi64.exe on Windows 8 64-bit OS and use the 64-bit version of the JDK. After installation (which went smoothly), the splash screen would appear a while, and then disappear and it stops working.
I was puzzled and tried to install the 32-bit version of JDK 8 on the PC. You could change the default JVM used by going into the etc sub directory in the gephi folder and changing the gephi.conf. Again it did not work.
Finally, I tried to also install the 64-bit version of latest JDK 7, and changed the gephi.conf to point to it. An this time it worked like a Charm Bar .. ooops, pardon the pun.
My gephi.conf looks like this
# default location of JDK/JRE, can be overridden by using --jdkhome
#jdkhome="/path/to/jdk"
jdkhome="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_67"
Well, it seems worthwhile to follow the original advice on the other blogposts to stick to 64-bit all the way (+ must be JDK 7 -- it won't work on JDK 8, yet ...., circa August 2014).
