On 27/02/2014 11:50, Andrew Thompson wrote:
On Feb 27, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
The JDK does include the AppleScriptEngine but is missing the service
configuration file that is needed to locate it. There is a bug open for this
but it does raise the question as to whether the JDK really needs to bundle
this scripting engine or not.
I think the issue here is right now a lot of customers still have at least some
fragments of Apple's Java 6 installed which makes this work.
As more machines come to exist which have only ever had Java 7 or greater on
them we'd see this issue more often, unless it is fixed.
Right now I think this masking makes it impossible to estimate how widely used
this engine is.
This is a terrible slip up, I assume you do java builds on clean machine
so I assume you don't have a single until test for checking talking to
Applescript engine.
I dread to think how many potential customers have tried my application
and given up when it fails to update iTunes ( a key part on of the
appilication for many OSX users), and Ive been unaware
Paul
