Sorry quick ammendment: Wakfu auto updates. IntellIJ automatically
prompts for an update, which is probably safer for a developer
audience. Neither program expects the end user to have a system level
Java runtime installed. That is the ideal model.

On Jan 20, 6:29 pm, clay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Java should completely abandon the model of expecting end users to
> install/maintain a system wide Java and simply embed the JVM into
> applications.
>
> IntelliJ does this. New Java games like Wakfu do this.
>
> Then those end user applications could use an auto-update mechanism as
> appropriate.
>
> On Jan 12, 2:39 pm, Chris Koerner <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > What if Java self-updated on end users machines?
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> > Before Chrome came if you asked the browser vendors the same question they
> > would respond with a large list of reasons why this would be a bad idea,
> > and they were all valid.
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> > But then Chrome showed them differently, and now even Microsoft is going to
> > start self-updating the browser.
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> > So why can't Java do the same.
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> > Oh I know, you'll list many reasons why its impossible or a bad idea, and
> > I'm sure they are probably all valid and true.
>
> > Until someone shows you differently.

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