Re: Bringing down Java packages in size

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Le samedi 04 juin 2011 Ã 10:46 +1000, Chris Jones a Ãcrit :

> But whilst installing the Java web-browser plugin, I observed that  
> it's not its dependancies that suck up the size but rather the  
> physical java packages themselves. And I just don't understand what  
> makes Java packages so big and bulky? I mean, I can install The GIMP  
> (a full image editing package) in under 10MB.

Because SUN Java is not modular, so every time a SUN dev thought he had
coded the next big thing he stuffed it in the jvm itself because there
is *no* other reliable Java deployment method.

It's supposed to be fixed by Oracle in Java 8 (missed the Java 7 boat)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot


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