On 14/11/2006 23:14 Alex Blewitt ha scritto:
You can already ship an RCP with an embedded JRE, by placing the
> runtime in a subdirectory called 'jre'. It shouldn't be too hard to
> modify e.g. customTargets.xml to perform the copying for you if you
> wanted to, and had a suitable JRE to hand.
Yes, I know that, however this has several problems. One is that the
JVMs are shipped as installable executable that must be run on the
target environment to have the files to package with the program, so you
need one win32 machine, one win64 (when available), one linux x86, one
linux x86_64, one Mac PPC, one Mac x86, one Solaris, etc. Another
problem is that the JVMs are not consistent across OSes so you are not
sure that the evironment is exactly what you expect.
I also believe that there are restrictions on the redistributable
license for the JVMs (at least Sun's JVMs). This maybe has changed with
the release of the source code, but you always have to deal with the OS
installations.
What I would like to see is a 'JVM pack' like the RCP delta pack that
can be used to automatically package the JVM compiled for the selected
target OSes, so that you can build the application from whatever OS you
are developing on and you are sure that the JVM is consistent to your
expectations because compiled from the same source.
Additionally maybe it is possible to remove all unnecessary code from
such VMs. For example an RCP application don't need the java plugin or
webstart systems, and I also believe that it would be possible to remove
Swing and AWT since we are using SWT (of course if you don't need the
SWT_AWT bridge). In other words, build a JVM that is specifically
optimized to be used with Eclipse and RCP applications.
Bye