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Re:A year with Go by politician on Friday June 05, 2015 @11:26PM (#9669509)
> You install a JRE on the machine. You deploy.

That's two steps. The first one can ruin your day.

Re:A year with Go by threeseed on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:06AM (#9669613)
How so ? It takes minutes to install it.

Just download it, copy it and set JAVA_HOME to make it easier for other applications.

I've done this on hundreds of servers during my lifetime and never once had an issue.

Re:A year with Go by sdenton4 on Saturday June 06, 2015 @02:41AM (#9669965)
Oh, look, there's already an antique jre installed on my os, not compatible with the particular jre needed by this application, which I first need to uninstall. And then hope that it doesn't break anything else in the process, because I haven't been following the minutae of java development environments for the last n+1 years...

I think it falls solidly in the "easy if you know it, and a wasted q hours if you don't" category.

Re:A year with Go by amaranth on Saturday June 06, 2015 @04:35AM (#9670157)
That's why he said to set a JAVA_HOME so this JRE can exist separately from the system one.