Vincent Privat, Serge Wroclawski, Martijn van Exel and Dirk Stöcker
I thank you all for your informative and reassuring replies. Some things I
struggle to understand fully: I am a simple, ancient cartographer!
Bob
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Martijn van Exel wrote:
I have been cautioned twice in security forums about the use of Java on
my Windows 8 PC (it seems it might be responsible for the daily
creation of a particular and large temporary file). The latest reply
advises me to either remove it completely o
There is a difference between running Java programs, such as JOSM, on
your computer, and running Java applets in your browser. Most of the
security concerns I hear about deal with browser applets. You can
disable Java plugins in your browser, thus preventing it from running
any Java applets, or cha
I will preface this reply by saying that I'm not a JOSM developer, nor
do I even know Java (I know a plethora of other languages, but not
Java).
That advice is either:
1. Being misunderstood by you
2. Incredibly stupid
In the case of Josm, if you run it as a standalone application, there
is no b
If you want to use JOSM you need Java to be installed on your PC. That's
what the J is standing for :) JOSM always works fine with latest version of
Java so you can use either Java 7u60 or 8u5. If you don't know how to
choose between these two versions you may rely on the one proposed for
download
I have been cautioned twice in security forums about the use of Java on my
Windows 8 PC (it seems it might be responsible for the daily creation of a
particular and large temporary file). The latest reply advises me to either
remove it completely or have it in a separate browser for use only wi
