[Sigia-l] Java installation stats?

[Conal Tuohy]

Leslie Johnston wrote:

> 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.

Perhaps you could deploy a Java applet on your website to do the research for you? This would tell you about YOUR existing users. The applet could be zero-sized (on the page) and very light-weight (a single .class file even, rather than a jar), and just report the JVM version back to your webserver by concatenating a base URL on your web-server with the version string, and then reading from that URL. Then you could check your server logs for results. 

Con