[Sigia-l] Java installation stats?

[Leslie Johnston]

At 05:52 PM 1/17/2005, Matthew Milan wrote:
>I was involved in the development of a web application last year that
>also required a 1.4 or higher JRE and JWS.  I can't remember specific
>stats, but the issue for us wasn't that people didn't have Java
>installed per say, but that they many of them were running older
>JRE's.  We talked with our client base about this change and many of
>them didn't like the idea of having to upgrade the JRE.  Our
>development lead loved the stuff in 1.4 though and so we ended up
>using it anyway.  It turned out to be a significant problem for us
>during development and deployment.  I don't work for the company any
>more and I can't remember off the top of my head where we got the java
>usage info, but if it comes to me, I'll drop you a line.

That users are running older JREs is indeed showing up as a problem.  Among 
the wrinkles that we are seeing today, the first official day of testing 
with users:  some browser installs include older versions of Java (a 
brand-new laptop came with 1.4.2, but some browser install overwrote it 
with 1.4.1), and Mac OS X version 10.3.4 is required for JRE 1.4.2.  Then 
there was the user with Windows98 - his department in the University last 
upgraded him 4 years ago.  And there are separate browser/Java 
compatibility issues that effect the use of Java Web Start, so we may end 
up with very narrow environment recommendation for use of our tools.

I look forward to any and all additional feedback.

Leslie


>Matthew
>
>
>On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:26:31 -0500, Leslie Johnston
><johnston at virginia.edu> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Following up on install base for Flash or Acrobat questions, does anyone
> > know of stats on Java?  I'm asking because we're developing tools that
> > require Java 2 JRE 1.4.2 or higher and Java Web Start.  If there's
> > information on java.sun.com, I'm having trouble finding it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Leslie
> >
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