Dumb newbie question ... runs on JRE?

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mwoffenden opened this issue 6 years ago · 5 comments

Will Portecle (Windows) run with just a JRE installed?

Answer 1 · 2018-08-31T13:33:32.000Z

Anyone????

Answer 2 · 2018-09-03T04:11:58.000Z

It should. Why not just try it out?

Answer 3 · 2018-09-03T13:43:26.000Z

Good point! Once I set JAVA_HOME it worked great.

Answer 4 · 2018-09-15T08:04:48.000Z

BTW, runtime environment was already mentioned in README.md. Maybe the above commit makes it more clear.

Answer 5 · 2018-09-15T15:04:08.000Z

That helps, but my confusion was over terminology, which newbies like me did not understand.

So I created this little cheat sheet which might help others.

Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition) refers to any/all of the following:

JRE (Java Runtime Environment) - Is for the end user running Java on a desktop. Covers most end-users needs. Contains everything required to run Java applications on your system.
JDK (Java SE Development Kit) - Is for Software Developers. For Java Developers. Includes a complete JRE plus tools for developing, debugging, and monitoring Java applications.
Server JRE (Server Java Runtime Environment) - Is for Administrators running applications on a server. For deploying Java applications on servers. Includes tools for JVM monitoring and tools commonly required for server applications, but does not include browser integration (the Java plug-in), auto-update, nor an installer.