It's fair if users automatically get those components when they need them, and if that somehow magically works when the machine is offline without Java applications having to distribute their own full profile JRE.
tl;dr no, it should be possible to opt out of the UI toolkit, but keeping it as a default would really make many lives easier than removing it would. On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]> wrote: > Its unfortunate that the UI toolkit is a mandatory part of a basic JRE > profile. Everybody needs the image libraries once if not often but the UI > really should be an optional extra... is that a fair comment ? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
