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Re: QTJ deployment strategies

(1) I could bundle QTJava.zip with my application and make sure my application CLASSPATH points to it, but I'd need to license this with Apple.
I don't know how much this costs, but it's not terribly desirable.

Not possible, they won't let you do it, and rightly so. It's dependent on the version of QT (DLLs etc.) you have installed, you can't have one without the other.

(2) I could ask the user to copy the QTJava.zip file from above into my /jre/lib/ext directory. This is really cumbersome and way too much to ask from a paying customer.
(3) On startup of my application, I could try searching the system in likely places for QTJava.zip and upon finding it, dynamically add it to my CLASSPATH. This is not only kludgy, but unreliable since the user could potentially install Quicktime in an unusual location I couldn't guess.

The quicktime installer doesn't install it in some random places. It places it in lib/ext for the current version of Java, which could vary it's true, but it does two other things. It places a second copy in the Windows system directory, and it sets the the QTJAVA environment variable. Both of these you can use to determine its location.

-Rolf
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Rolf Howarth
Square Box Systems Ltd
Stratford-upon-Avon UK.
http://www.squarebox.co.uk
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