Olivier, Problems with bundling the JRE: 1) Distribution becomes over 6 Meg instead of somewhere around 500K for a simple utility. Not good for electronic distribution! 2) Possible legal issues as you mentioned, however it was my understanding that we do *not* actually need any license or agreement to include the full JRE in a distribution. 3) Instead of a nice clean distribution of a single file you now have a large multi-file install mess. Perhaps Sun could be nice enough to publish clear simple instructions for how to do this. I've never attempted it myself because I find it undesirable due to point #1, but I'm also concerned about all the path issues. I've had customers make shortcuts on their desktop leading to my Java applications being run from a location unexpected and thus messing up pathing for my application to find other files.
- John Wright Starfire Research Olivier Lefevre wrote: > > > Currently if the customer doesn't have the Java VM or has an > > incompatible version (or a just plain messed up install) then we > have > > all kinds of support nightmares. This isn't a viable way to do > business > > except for a very small portion of the market. > > What stops you from bundling a JRE in your distribution and using that > one? > Many companies are doing it. True, you need to execute a distribution > license > with Sun first but that is another issue. > > -- O.L. > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
