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JRE seems mandatory??
JRE seems mandatory??
Posted Mar 27, 2008 14:31 UTC (Thu) by paragw (guest, #45306)Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.4 released
I cannot seem to download the Windows version without JRE. So I get to burn the bandwidth if I have the JRE already or if I don't want it. This sucks.
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JRE seems mandatory??
Posted Mar 27, 2008 14:47 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]
And here's a burning question I've never been able to figure out... Exactly why is a JRE needed for OOo? What's the added functional benefit? Thanks!
JRE seems mandatory??
Posted Mar 27, 2008 15:08 UTC (Thu) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846) [Link]
A significant portion of OOo is written in Java. Most of the import/export filters, for example.
JRE seems mandatory??
Posted Mar 27, 2008 15:47 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]
But why isn't it compiled to the native code by default? It's not like the filters are meant to be copied to other platforms.
JRE seems mandatory??
Posted Mar 27, 2008 17:03 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785) [Link]
>But why isn't it compiled to the native code by default? It's not like the filters are meant to be copied to other platforms. Perhaps a performance issue? Compiled Java isn't necessarily faster than a JVM, probably because much more manpower has been invested in the JVM than in a 'normal ahead-of-time' compiler. Plus from a marketing point of view, I doubt that Sun would like this..
JRE seems mandatory??
Posted Mar 27, 2008 17:07 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227) [Link]
You still need the JRE even if compiled to "native" code. Just like C needs libc, C++ needs libstdc++, and so on, Java needs many of the components of the JRE even when compiled. It needs the bytecode interpreter even since there are cases where you cannot compile code natively, or when you want to load a plugin that is distributed only as bytecode, and so on.
JRE seems mandatory??
Posted Mar 27, 2008 16:31 UTC (Thu) by paragw (guest, #45306) [Link]
Can't think of any added benefit - already most OO.o code is C++ and adding a bit of Java just to be portable doesn't seem like a lot of benefit when you have added a whole another dependency of the JVM. But I am sure this has been discussed before...
JRE seems mandatory??
Posted Mar 28, 2008 20:59 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
But if also have a company agenda to push Java everywhere ...