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JRE seems mandatory??
JRE seems mandatory??
Posted Mar 27, 2008 17:07 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227)In reply to: JRE seems mandatory?? by proski
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.4 released
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.
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