Simon Morris's Blog: August 2006 Archive

Thanks to JavaDB there's been a lot of noise recently about Java SE (is that what we're supposed to call it this week? :) and end user experience. Specifically, the time it takes to download the JRE onto a desktop computer, versus so-called rival technologies such as Flash. At the heart of this debate is a classic catch twenty-two conundrum: the more feature-rich SE becomes, the bigger it gets and the less likely it is to be seen as a short, sharp, convenient download by 'Joe Surfer', our archetypal end user.

It seems a lot of people agree that something should be done, but few go as far as to throw any concrete ideas into the metaphorical 'deployment hat'. I have little experience of developing deployment software. My only real interest in this field is as someone who writes Java applications, and therefore has to deal with desktop deployment issues as they currently stand. So for what it's worth, in the hopes of putting some extra flesh to the bones of this debate, here's a few random thoughts of mine...

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