Quite a strange behavior!
You probably have two Java virtual machines installed on your system.
Unless you perfectly know how to handle this, I would give a try to the installer version .
Hello, I have download this link, unzip and execute and I have the same result. Opens the program and closes ...

Hello I use Linux Mint Julia with this kernel 2.6.38-3.dmz.1-liquorix-686.

I have got this VGA card in the laptop 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)

The first time I download http://www.sweethome3d.com/SweetHome3D.jnlp and I ...