Rich Harris wrote:
>
> I was looking at the Future Product Information and it was completely silent
> about any signed installer hosted by java.sun. What it the status of this?
>From my last lot of communications with the Sun developers, you won't
see anything until either Java 3D 1.3 or JDK 1.4. The reason for this is
that the installer system is pretty much useless at the moment. It does
not handle variations of system architecture.
For example, I could set up an installer for Solaris or Linux, but
either of these run on multiple CPU types. There is no capability in the
system to tell it I want Linux/Alpha or Solaris/x86. Another annoying
part (at least from my persective) is that the ability to write pure
Java installers is pretty much screwed at the moment. All the
classloaders they are using are stuffed and prevent you accessing
_anything_ even the JAR file you downloaded the installer from!
SO, in summary, the J3D guys would love to put an installer out there,
but right at the moment it is simply not worth their time as the system
is so broken as to be almost unusable.
Justin Couch, the sigless.....
(working on finding where it went!)
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