From: "Ian Clarke" <[email protected]> >This isn't true, most Windows users have IE which comes with jview, a >java interpreter which Freenet seems to work with. >Ian.
Some of the time. Ian, Sebastian and others, **please note**: I'm running Internet Explorer 5.0, with installations of Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 98 Second Edition. Freenet 0.3.7.2 and 0.3.8.1 failed to work on either of these installations when using the Windows/IE built-in Java. But both these Freenet versions worked on both installations when using Sun's JRE. I have verified this (conclusively for Win98) by using a clean-install virgin Win98 image, which I can quickly ghost down to a partition. Any arguments about 'pre-existing files, configs and registry keys' are therefore null and void. I have not seen a single case on the support list where Freenet has failed to work with Sun JRE but has worked with Windows java. But I have seen several cases (including mine) where the opposite is true - freenet works with Sun JRE and fails with Windows Java. Freenet installs still aren't 100% successful on all windows systems. But the success rate is far higher when using Sun JRE instead of Windows java. I advise most strongly, for the nth time, that the Windows installer be changed to not recognise any Windows java interpreters. Sun's JRE license allows the JRE to be bundled in with third party software (as it is with, say, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photo Deluxe and other Windoze apps).
