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On 03/26/2015 08:13 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 3/26/2015 7:52 AM, Qu0ll wrote:
>>
>> JavaFX *does* have a new deployment strategy (installer packages with VM
>> included) and does an incredible amount of things that Swing could never
>> do and in a completely different and improved way.  Plus, it now runs on
>> iOS, Android and Embedded platforms as well without any local JVM.
>
>      Slight digression: By "without any local JVM" I guess you mean the
> JVM (or a required subset) is delivered along with the application.  Is
> this safe?  How do I know I'm not being handed an unpatched, out-of-date
> JVM?  How do I know I'm not being handed a *hacked* JVM?
>
>      Way back when, it was supposed to be safe to download and run Java
> code: The JVM that you yourself had installed to run it would police
> the safety of the downloaded code.  The scheme was less than perfectly
> air-tight (ahem), but may have been slightly more secure than just
> downloading and running a random executable.  Are you saying that the
> latter is now Oracle's preferred modus operandi?
>
Self-Contained Application Packaging
<https://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/deployment/self-contained-packaging.htm#BCGIBBCI>