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Re: Move to native jar: nearly there, but not quite

Posted by LordSmoke on May 15, 2012; 9:00pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Move-to-native-jar-nearly-there-but-not-quite-tp3982739p3990084.html

gouessej wrote
IzPack is nice, very complete but there is no auto update feature and it is harder to use than Java Web Start. Sorry to contradict you but lots of laptops and netbooks are sold with Ubuntu, some people using GNU Linux are not technical people. Java Web Start allows to have a simple installer that works where Java itself is installed and it can even trigger the install of a more recent JVM if you want. You can read this tutorial to learn how to use it:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/webstart/
My users are almost entirely life-sciences folks that tend to be math/computer averse (but that makes me look good :) ). I would estimate 80-90% only use Windows machines, ~10% (but growing) go with Macs (popular in genetics), and the remaining few Linux users are real or wannabe techies. I have asked for a volunteer amongst my (quite talented) minions to look into web start and general web development. Thanks for the link.