Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: A very dark day indeed :-( Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:58:26 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <960ef14f-1fa8-43df-aca9-c6425d65cb70@googlegroups.com> <56b9f6b0$0$23733$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <9f2db0b1-914f-48dd-a51c-0a3e1a21ecaa@googlegroups.com> <56b9ff1b$0$23868$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <4d701247-d263-4b18-ad52-6f2f71c6596a@googlegroups.com> <56ba0814$0$23803$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <1b5271d6-d372-439e-8a74-8bbe1e71e007@googlegroups.com> <56ba10c6$0$23803$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <00e14515-1ebf-445d-8d31-81489d3d70af@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ANasIS7Js9OyLQwgloeBLQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:33762 On 2/10/2016 9:28 AM, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 8:40:10 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 2/9/2016 11:16 AM, Silvio wrote: >>> JRE is part of the JDK. Assuming most people have a JRE installed >>> is quite optimistic. Assuming the Web start will work is even >>> more optimistic. >> >> Running Java application requires Java installed. >> >> That is something Java Web Start can not solve. > > Anyone who needs it will install it. If the application is a "must have" sure but not if it is a "nice to have". > What's your point? That there is nothing Oracle can do about it. > Java is > used more for business applications than programs for random > individuals. It certainly is in the real world today. But applets was intended to target what you call random individuals. And Java Web Start as an alternative to applets would need to. Arne