Re: [Aimmath-developers] why do we need jdk

[Manolis M. <ma...@ma...>]

> If we can get away with the jre (= java runtime environment), that would
be
> good, as many people will have it installed already.  We would need to
know
> where to look, however.  Under Windows XP professional, I have a JRE at
> C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1  I am not sure how standard this
> location
> is, or how exactly it came to be installed there; in particular, I am not
> sure whether every Windows XP installation has the jre installed by
default.

all Win32 platforms come with copies of java at c:\winnt\system32 for NT
(2000, XP, NT) or c:\windows\system (for Win98) and the directories are also
in the path so it can be used directly.

Perhaps the default could be this path and  the installation can lok for
java there and if it doesn't exist prompt the user to download the JRE from
sun (or the installation page) and they would have to change the
configuration file and set the path for java.

Manolis

ps. In fact JRE is redistributable so we could even put it in the ZIP file
but as Neil said there is no point on that as most people will have it (we
can tell them to check on their own before downloading it)