reducing size of bundled jre

[Kustaa Nyholm]

On 7.1.2013 18.38, "Hendrik Schreiber" <hs at tagtraum.com> wrote:

>On 07.01.2013, at 13:40, Kustaa Nyholm wrote:
>
>>I've not tried this myself as I've postponed bundling until
>>we get proper Retina support,
>
>I have tried 1.7.0_10 and umlauts in filenames still don't seem to be
>supported (is that fixed in update 12?), Retina is missing, full screen
>is buggy (according to Sergey will be fixed soon!), but probably worst of
>all - and I didn't realize that until now - OS X 10.6 is not supported.
>
>Meaning:
>
>~1/3 of all Mac users can't use it.
>
>http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/04/os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-tops-lion-as-m
>ost-popular-mac-operating-system/
>
>So I guess at this point, one is unfortunately still well advised to wait
>a little before shipping anything with Java7.
>
>The good news is though:
>
>Besides that other problem with the FileManager class
>(http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/macosx-port-dev/2013-January/00526
>1.html) I didn't encounter any serious problems when starting my app on
>Java7. And that's pretty cool. not quite Java6 quality, but we're
>definitely getting there.
>
>-hendrik

That just about sums up my reservations for this. I don't
see Apple Java (1.6) disappearing in the foreseeable future
so it is hard to justify the 'expense' of bundling for me
or my users so for the time being I just wait and see
and it is business as usual until something forces
me to bundle. This same applies to Windows and Linux
as well for my small applications.

br Kusti