Re: [JDEV] VB jabber client

[Michael Pike]

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.

mike



From: "Ulrich B. Staudinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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:


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".
In fact with a simple javascript you can query the JVM version, if none 
exists, you can automatically initate a download.

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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