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Documented that only Comsol 6.0 and newer is "expected to work".
Comsol 5.5 and 5.6 no longer work out of the box as the latest JPype version (1.6) doesn't support Java 8, which these Comsol versions ship with.
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## Comsol
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Comsol, obviously, you need to license and install yourself. [Versions] 5.6 and
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Comsol, obviously, you need to license and install yourself. [Versions] 6.0 and
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newer are expected to work. Up to version 6.3, they have been successfully
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tested. A separate Java run-time environment is *not* required as Comsol ships
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with one already built in.
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```{note}
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For most users who already have Comsol installed, MPh will work out of the box.
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For most users who already have a recent Comsol version installed, MPh will
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work out of the box.
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Comsol 5.5 and 5.6 may work if you downgrade JPype: `pip install "jpype1<1.6"`.
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Newer JPype versions no longer support Java 8, which these older Comsol
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versions ship with.
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