Pete Holsberg wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton typed the following on 7/2/2006 7:49 AM:
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 05:35 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
I looked at the install instructions and the OOo FAQ and see no explicit description of when one should install the binary including JRE and when one should install the binary without JRE.

When should one choose the one over the other? In a nutshell, what's the difference? (and can we get it put in the FAQ?)


See http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/index.html . In particular http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/installation/021.html

"For example, with 1.1 you will not be able to use the XSLT functionality, JDBC, applets, form generators, and Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for 3rd party modules, if no Java is installed."

For example? Not exactly definitive!

What is XSLT functionality?
JBDC?
Which applets?

http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/installation/022.html

"You can download Java from http://www.java.com  or http://java.sun.com.";

http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/installation/023.html

"Which version of Java do I need?"

http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/installation/024.html

Not at all applicable.

http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/installation/025.html

"Can I install Java after I install OpenOffice.org?"

There has to be a simple answer to the question, "Do I need to download JRE for OOo?"

There is no real simple answer, because the situation isn't simple.

The pragmatic simple answer is, "If you don't have, or know whether you have, a JRE, get the version that contains one."

For some people, that will the /wrong/ answer, but it will be "mostly harmless".

--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
  -- Charles Williams.  "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"

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