You can no longer download the Microsoft JVM.... go to a fresh install of XP and hit a page with a java applet... it says "click here to update", and when you go to the site, it says they no longer offer it, unless you get it with Visual Studio or XPSP1.... Visual Studio has since stopped distributing it... and I believe XPSP's no longer have it either (lucky for me I got XPSP1 when it first came out).
Now Sun has their JVM.... but it is terribly unstable IMHO.
I agree to 70%, unstable yes - the main question is: what is unstable - i think it's XP. on linux java runs like a dream. on 2000 all releases run perfect, too.
ulrich
mike
From: "Ulrich B. Staudinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JDEV] VB jabber client Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:40:16 +0200
Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Michael Pike wrote:In fact with a simple javascript you can query the JVM version, if none exists, you can automatically initate a download.
the problem with the Java Applet is that you would then need the JVM
installed. Microsoft no longer supports Java, and it will be unavailable in
the coming months.
What? I'm not sure that's necessarily the case. Microsoft has been
actively trying to cripple the Java environment for years, it can be said
they never supported it.
Installing the JVM runtime on a system is trivial, and every machine I know of (including Windows XP) allows a very brief "You need the java plugin to run this application, click here to get it".
Ulrich
The JVM plugin for browsers is no more or less involved than running Shockwave or Adobe Acrobat or any of the other external plugins.
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