I might be wrong, but as a purely Java based application I'm fairly sure that Eclipse/CFEclipse don't do any registry edits.
Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Heald, Timothy J wrote: > With most windows applications, especially those that use the MSI, you > can prohibit the user from doing installs. You can further limit it by > disallowing access to the registry. > > Oh well, thanks for the input man. > > I'll see what I can do but I'm thinking they won't be allowing it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jacob Munson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:35 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Eclipse/CF Eclipse environment questions > > You're right, as long as a person can install into their My Documents > folder, they can do whatever they want, but this is the same with > anything, not just Eclipse. If that is going to stop them from > allowing Eclipse, then they can't allow ANYTHING, because you can > always get around strict policies like this. > > As far as the 3rd question, I'm pretty sure there aren't any other > requirements besides Java. > > On 3/20/07, Heald, Timothy J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>We are attempting to get approval to use Eclipse, CF Eclipse and > > Aptana > >>here. Currently we are not permitted and are all either using > > Homesite > >>or (blech) Dreamweaver). >> >> >> >>I was sent a list of questions, and have been able to answer most of >>them, but I'm unable to find anything out about some of them. >> >> >> >>If you know anything about these issues, I would really appreciate the >>help. Of course it's all due by tomorrow morning, in order to make it >>in front of our approval board. >> >> >> >>1. Can you disable the user's ability to download and install >>plug-ins outside of the baseline that we install and approve? >> >> >> >>Obviously with what we do here IT security is a main concern. The >>individual users have no rights to install anything at all. I know we >>can block most auto updates at the router by blocking ports, but what >>about manual updates? >> >> >> >>2. Is there a way to prevent users from updating Eclipse and the >>SDK? >> >> >> >>I was unable to think of a way to stop someone from even installing > > it, > >>I mean so long as you have the correct JDK (1.4) on your machine you >>could always just unzip it to your My Documents and run it from there >>right? >> >> >> >>3. Is there any other necessary Sun or other third party things >>that need to be installed in order to use Eclipse? >> >> >> >>I don't think there are, but I'd hate to miss something and have to go >>through this process all over again. >> >> >> >>Again any help would really be appreciated. >> >> >> >>Thanks, >> >> >> >>Tim Heald >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273261 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
