Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Silly simply question Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:03:53 -0800 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10616 On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 08:42:39 -0800 (PST), justaguy wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >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. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jre.html http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jdk.html App servers typically generate little Java programs and compile them on the fly. They would require the JDK which contains the javac.exe compiler. Normally you do not include the JRE or JDK in your package. Just include a note and url that it must be installed first. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com For me, the appeal of computer programming is that even though I am quite a klutz, I can still produce something, in a sense perfect, because the computer gives me as many chances as I please to get it right.