Deployment (original) (raw)

Jeff McDonald deep.blue.6802 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 16:59:02 PST 2012

Hi Pedro,

If you haven't tried the latest weekly build (JavaFX 2.1b14) then I'd suggest giving it a try. I had similar issues as you did and the cause was related to a bug in JavaFX where old plug-in files were not being updated when doing new installs. That bug has been fixed. I'd also suggest closing all of your browser windows (and shutting down your web browser) before installing the JavaFX 2.1b14 build. I also make it a habit to do run the un-installer before doing a new install just to be safe. When you are using beta or dev builds of any software it's always a good idea to run the un-installer to remove old config files and registry entries ... it's not a fix all ... I just find it to be a good practice.

I agree that I'd like to see a nice installer that checks the environment and resolves common issues. For my purposes I'd love to just be able to deploy a double clickable app and with a co-bundled JVM so that I don't have to care about what the user has installed on their system. What specific features or functionality do you think is missing from the deployment technology in Java?

Cheers, Jeff

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira <pedro.duquevieira at gmail.com> wrote:

I'd also like to add my vote to fixing the deployment issues.

I haven't yet been able to run a javafx applet or webstart on a first try. Its always broken somehow telling me javafx isn't installed when it is or presenting me with some security issue that I had already answered to, etc. Even posts on semi official sites like fxexperience have broken applets, and it's not just me complaining I see other users having the same issues. I consider myself a very educated user on this subject, I have javafx installed, I create javafx apps that I publish to other users and still am getting issues with running javafx apps. Imagine what troubles, regular user might have...

Another issue that has been mentioned and that I also find important is providing an easy way in which developers can create installers that check and resolve common issues like: no java installed, in the most user friendly way. I speculate that this will probably be the most used way of distributing an app and there is no documentation nor framework to help address this. Cheers, and thanks, keep up the great work -- Pedro Duque Vieira

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