Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st May 2006 16:04 UTC
New Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz's first 100 days at the helm are about to get interesting. First up: managing an internal debate over whether the company should open-source Java. According to sources inside Sun, an ongoing debate over whether to open-source Java is coming to a head with the JavaOne conference looming May 16.
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RE: Unified installer that installs JRE if necessary?
by shotsman on Mon 1st May 2006 17:25
in reply to "Unified installer that installs JRE if necessary?"
Member since:2005-07-22
There are plenty of commercial apps that include a JVM in their installer that is installed in its app path/directories and is used (unless otherwise linked) by that app alone.
Some examples are Oracle, DB2, Websphere. In the case of the IBM apps, the JVM is the IBM version of the JRE and not the Sun one.
I'm sure that there are plenty of other examples that could be sited that have their own builtin JVM's of various different flavours.
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2005-08-08
Does Sun's (or anybody's) JRE licensing permit an application installer to silently install a JRE if one is not already installed?
My understanding is that the way things are now, an end user must run two installers in order to install one desktop application. The first installer is for the JRE, and the second installer is for the application.
Thanks.
Doug