> On Feb 27, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> > > The JDK does include the AppleScriptEngine but is missing the service > configuration file that is needed to locate it. There is a bug open for this > but it does raise the question as to whether the JDK really needs to bundle > this scripting engine or not.
I think the issue here is right now a lot of customers still have at least some fragments of Apple's Java 6 installed which makes this work. As more machines come to exist which have only ever had Java 7 or greater on them we'd see this issue more often, unless it is fixed. Right now I think this masking makes it impossible to estimate how widely used this engine is.
