Re: IBM i and Java Support - Steve Will

This is simply going to be a major PITA.  And I need to do it to every
desktop we have.

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 12:58 PM David Gibbs via JAVA400-L <
java400-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

> > This change needs to be as simple/seamless as possible.  Any
> > environment variables/paths/etc will need to be done on every PC.
> > One of the beautiful things about ACS was that everything is
> > contained in the ACS folder and subfolders.  Now that is (apparently)
> > changing.
>
> That isn't changing ... if you put the launcher in the root of the ACS
> directory, along with a JRE, it should be completely self contained.  You
> can put it on a mapped drive, dropbox folder, etc.
>
> If the native launcher isn't in the same directory as the JRE directory,
> it will look for a JRE on the path.  By putting a JRE in the acs directory,
> it will use that jre.
>
> Personally, I don't like depending on searching the path to find a version
> of java ... there are just to many versions.  If the software you are
> trying to run isn't compatible, you'll run into problems.
>
> Because of that, I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get approval to
> use OpenJ9 with some of my software (because we could no longer include
> Oracle Java).  I don't want customers to have to find a compatible version
> of Java and install it.  Since I'm using OpenJ9, I can ship it with the
> product.
>
> david
>
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