Brendon, thank you for your explanation. I agree that MacOS propably is
the best environment of all. Another question is if their distribution
politics are the best of all. Copying JRE files in the applications
directory does not change the system's configuration. Perhaps I should
ask Apple directly . I only want to provide an application that works
immediately.
regards,
tom
Brendon McLean wrote:
Unfortunately, the people on this list are correct. It is
probably illegal to package the Apple JDK with your application and I
wouldn't recommend it. I have heard rumours that JDK1.5 will work if
all the files are copied into the same directory structure. Allegedly,
JDK 1.5 will even work on Panther when copied like this (heard that
from some infuriated Java Mac programmer). But firstly, your program
would be in breach of Apple's licensing policy. Secondly, you'd need
to create an installer package with root privileges. And lastly, but
most importantly, if your customers are typical mac users they will
consider your silent installation of Java 1.5 as sabotage. Trust me,
they'll hate it.
You may be able to
package the 1.5 installer package from Apple with your application.
You may even be able to launch it from your own installer. Life is
hard here in Mac land. From my perspective, developing with Apple
compared to developing with Sun is like comparing life in Switzerland
to life in North Korea. Luckily for Apple I hate them less than
Microsoft and I've been too burnt by Linux to go down that route so I'm
a captive programmer for now ;)
Regards,
Brendon.
On 29 Jul 2005, at 13:50, Thomas Vatter wrote:
I won't support my application on more
than one JRE. Java 5 is first class, it is faster and easier in
programming. Why does apple not integrate it - if it is already
existing. It is no problem to tell my customers operating system has to be at least
10.4. Still best way seems to be copying Java 5 in a subdirectory of
the application. If it would work...
tom
Todd O'Bryan wrote:
Java 5.0 probably won't work in 10.3 or
before. If people want your application,
they're going to have to use at least OS 10.4 and, at this point, they'll need to
download the Java 5 update manually from the Apple website.
This argues for two possible solutions:
don't target Java 5.0 and rewrite
the parts of the code that use it (if you're just using the new language features, there
are tools that let you compile to run on 1.4.2; if you're using new
APIs, your choices are much more limited) or be okay with your app not
running on Mac OS until Java 5.0 becomes a first-class player on Mac
OS. And realize you'll then only be able to target 10.4.
Todd
On Jul 29, 2005, at 6:12 AM, Thomas
Vatter wrote:
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