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Re: Silly simply question

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On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, justaguy wrote:

> First, I'm not a java programmer.  But the app server (open source) that 
> my app runs on requires java, and it comes with two versions of with jre 
> or without jre, and I'm porting my app to Mac, the jre is 78MB, pretty 
> big file size wise, question, so, if most Mac computers have java 
> installed already I don't need to bundle it with jre and if not I need 
> to, your thoughts?  Thanks.

I think all versions of OS X come with Java; the question is, what 
version.

What you'll need to do is find out what versions of the JRE your app 
server is compatible with; both the lowest version it will work with, and 
perhaps the highest version. Then you'll need to decide what versions of 
OS X you want to support. Then you'll need to find out what versions of 
Java shipped with each of those versions of OS X. Then, you'll be able to 
see if there are any versions of OS X that have versions of Java that your 
app server won't work with.

If there are, you can make a choice between (a) not supporting those 
versions, (b) shipping the JRE as part of your app, (c) requiring users of 
those versions to install a separate JRE, or (d) requiring users to 
download a different version of your app which includes its own JRE.

I know early version of OS X lagged far behind in their Java releases. 
It's been pretty good in the last few years, though.

tom

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Silly simply question justaguy <donli@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-08 08:42 -0800
  Re: Silly simply question Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-08 17:17 +0000
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