Re: [tycho-user] Bundling JREs with my Product

[Laurent PETIT <laurent.petit@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about OpenJdk ?

2013/6/18 Simon Goodall <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> In the past Oracle's licensing terms (as I understood them) forbid automatic
> downloads of the JRE/JDK or redistribution in a more convenient format.
> However you can include it as part of your application. I am not sure if
> things have changed since I last looked. The latest hudson version still has
> the automatic jdk install disabled with a note to the same Hudson-9016 bug
> referenced in the blog post. The Jenkins build server does have this support
> enabled - essentially it programmatically navigates the oracle website using
> your oracle developer network credentials.
>
> Simon
>
>
> On 18 June 2013 15:30, Laurent PETIT <laurent.petit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 2013/6/18 Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>:
>> > Or Google it. I'm using the following I found through a search:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > http://codeiseasy.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/including-a-jre-in-a-tycho-build
>> > /
>> >
>> > Doug.
>>
>>
>> Hello Doug,
>>
>> I have come across this July 2012 link.
>> If you think it's the panacea, good for you, but for me it's far from
>> ideal, and that's why I'm asking for an update on the best way of
>> doing things currently, e.g. a year later.
>>
>> Especially, this last bit annoys me a lot, and I'd like to know if
>> there's a better way:
>>
>> "The only piece left is to obtain the JRE itself. Unfortunately the
>> Oracle JRE’s cannot be downloaded direct from Orcale automatically
>> (see e.g. here) so they must be manually downloaded, installed and the
>> the jre directory copied across for each version and platform you need
>> to support."
>>
>> Seems like repetitive / tedious / error prone work that could be
>> avoided if there's a central place to put each new public revision of
>> say open jdk 7.
>> A maven repo ?
>> A p2 repository ?
>> Already done ? Where ?
>>
>> That's why, among other things, I ask here on the ml, to humans, and
>> not just the google bot.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Laurent
>>
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