JFX build and deployment - squeaking wheel

[Richard Bair]

> I just tried using the AppBundler (the other one from Java.net) to create a Mac bundle with an embedded JRE and it worked pretty well.  For Windows is an MSI file a requirement or could some other installer system work? I just found NSIS which can generate Windows installers from linux.

The reason MSI is important is that for many large sites with IT departments, they don't want to have to go around from machine to machine manually installing software and, they don't trust users to be able to download and install software themselves (either by policy or by some means of enforcement). Giving the IT department an MSI allows them to remotely push updates / software onto the correct users machines according to whatever policies they've crafted in their business. Or remove the software when the time comes.

Richard