On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:08:36 +0200, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote:

Embedding the Java runtime with each app dates back to the days when
Java as a platform was very buggy, and devs had to make sure the user
had 1.xsomething and not 1.xsomething-1 JRE installed.

And I have to add that this is still a potential problem and not really related to "Java being very buggy" (if not in a probabilistic way). We have already discussed here about applications that broke in the past because of a system Java update of a *minor* version of Java.

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