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kawkhins

Hello,

I have a Java technical question, related to the installation process of
applications.

By default, no Java on Windows, which cause trouble to distribute maxmsp
applications using MXJ, because then we have to explain this this and
this to get the user to install a proper Java runtime.
(and also, if we developp in Java5, more troubles because computer may
have only Java1.4...)

This is not efficient at all.

The solution is to embed a JRE into the application folder. This is
quite easy for any custom java application, we just have to copy it and
to reference it in the startup script.

My question is:
Is it possible with maxmsp/mxj to indicate where to find the JRE ?
We have
max.java.jvm.version 1.5
to select the JVM version, but it would be nice to have
max.java.path .\jre
for example, to tell mxj the JRE is in directory "jre" of application
directory.

If this is possible, we don't have do bother anymore with Java on
Windows. We install the needed version with our application.

Thanks,
Chris

3 years ago
projects

Hi Chris,

It should be possible to include a JRE with your application. You
should be able to either co-locate the JRE in the same directory as
the application, or put it inside <apphome>\jre . mxj looks for both
of these options before it looks for a public JRE. Let me know if
these don't work for you.

Ben

On 10/15/06, Chris <kawkins@bzhtec.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Java technical question, related to the installation process of
> applications.
>
> By default, no Java on Windows, which cause trouble to distribute maxmsp
> applications using MXJ, because then we have to explain this this and
> this to get the user to install a proper Java runtime.
> (and also, if we developp in Java5, more troubles because computer may
> have only Java1.4...)
>
> This is not efficient at all.
>
> The solution is to embed a JRE into the application folder. This is
> quite easy for any custom java application, we just have to copy it and
> to reference it in the startup script.
>
> My question is:
> Is it possible with maxmsp/mxj to indicate where to find the JRE ?
> We have
> max.java.jvm.version 1.5
> to select the JVM version, but it would be nice to have
> max.java.path .\jre
> for example, to tell mxj the JRE is in directory "jre" of application
> directory.
>
> If this is possible, we don't have do bother anymore with Java on
> Windows. We install the needed version with our application.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>

3 years ago
kawkhins

3 years ago
projects

3 years ago
kawkhins

Hi Ben,

> simple but it took a lot of digging to find! I'll send you an updated
> mxj in a private email. Thanks for reporting the bug!

You're new version is working fine. No java is installed on my computer,
I have a jre embeded into my application directory (in .\jre) and it's
working.

Thanks,
Chris

3 years ago
sonicdave

Hello Ben, I am also interested in embedding a jre in a standalone, would it possible to send me the updated mxj external as well?

Thanks

Dave

3 years ago
ingo

hi ben.

im interested in this solution also!

can you send me the updated mxj too?

thanks
ingo

3 years ago
G

hi

i'm interested to
could you mail it to me please...

G

3 years ago
Dan Nigrin

Me too Ben!

I looked on incremental updates, but didn't find it...

Thanks,
Dan

At 7:47 AM -0600 4/15/07, ingo randolf wrote:
>hi ben.
>
>im interested in this solution also!
>
>can you send me the updated mxj too?
>
>thanks
>ingo

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3 years ago
Myer Nore

Ben, could you please forward it to me as well? It'd be a great help as this is exactly what I'm trying to do ...
Thanks!
Myer
[myernore at yahoo]

3 years ago
jbm

Yet another user interested in embedding the jre! I'm not in any rush, but it would be nice to be able to do this at a later date. It seems as though this might be a good topic for a new article on the c74 site - no?

J.

3 years ago

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