If "the" problem is security, it really does solve it. AFAIK, all of the 
major Java client side security issues use the Java web applet system as 
the point of entry. Nothing infects embedded JREs/JDKs inside apps like 
IntelliJ or games like Wakfu.

Lots of apps use old versions of the C/C++ runtime or various other 
runtimes and these don't expose major security holes.

The security holes are things like applets/Flash/ActiveX, that enable users 
to auto run malicious programs off of web pages.

On Friday, April 13, 2012 5:10:08 PM UTC-5, Josh Berry wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:01 PM, clay <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Moving to a JRE as an embeddable library solves the security issue, 
> solves
> > the update nagging issues that users complain about, and solves user
> > compliance issues of not choosing to install Java or not having a recent
> > version of the JRE.
>
> It only "solves" it by moving the issue to these applications.  If
> users do not update client applications that bundle a VM, then it
> isn't like these problems just didn't happen.
>

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