Re: Why isn't Java support part of Postgresql core?

[cowwoc <cowwoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

You are confusing a private JRE installation with the public JRE installation (yes, there is such a thing). The public JRE is found in java/jre8. The private JRE is found in java/jdk1.8.0_20/jre.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdk-8-readme-2095712.html#redistribution gives you permission to redistribute the JRE directory that ships inside each JDK installation. If you dig into jre/bin/server you will find jvm.dll.

As far as I know, creating and redistributing a private JRE should be very easy to do. Plenty of organizations do it and it works well.

Gili

On 18/09/2014 11:33 AM, John R Pierce [via PostgreSQL] wrote:

On 9/18/2014 6:18 AM, David G Johnston wrote:
> What distributions of JRE are available on the Windows platform and which
> ones are allowed to be "privately distributed"?

afaik, Sun/Oracle is /the/ Java for Windows, and AFAIK, it does NOT
allow redistribution, Oracle wants you to register each usage.

also as far as I know, java on 64bit windows defaults to only installing
a 32 bit java, since thats what most browsers use.

hmmm, for extra fun, the JRE 7 I have on my win8 box here, I'm not even
SEEING the server/jni libraries?!?


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