The best installation experience is no installation.
My favorite: Single binary Hashicorp Nomad, the same binary for client and server! Runs without sudo, straight out of /tmp.
My favorite: Single binary Hashicorp Nomad, the same binary for client and server! Runs without sudo, straight out of /tmp.
No installation, but everyone runs the same single binary straight from the shared local area network drive. :)
Naysayers: don't worry, bandwidth isn't an issue, it's a high-speed LAN, and the wire won't catch fire, even if it is FireWire.
JNLP
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/deploymen...
JNLP still sends shivers down my back.
It is still in use to this day. Hugh.. It sucked when it was new and still does just as bad.
Joking, about the LAN suggestion (although the method does work, it was there from Novell Netware days), but not trolling about the JNLP suggestion. I genuinely thought it would work.
I stopped using Java probably a bit before JNLP came out, so never checked it out.
What sucked about JNLP? I can google, but what was your experience with it?
Not GP, but:
Oh, JRE too old? Link to download the latest? Now it accepts the JRE, but the JRE refuses it with security errors. So you turn those checks off and the jnlp runs but crashes with an obscure error. So you try another JRE until you find a version that works.
While doing this, you interact with Oracle, at all times with the fear of their lawyers, until you decide to use a foss runtime. Now you are managing runtimes from different vendors with different configs and locations.
Write once, troubleshoot everywhere.
Heh, yeah :) But they call him a moderator around here.
>I don’t understand the downvotes?
Neither does anyone else, usually, except the downvoters and their tribe :) But they think everyone else should think like them, so they downvote those who do not.
Actually, I do understand, or think I do. People are being lazy, by downvoting as a quick fly-by reflex action, instead of spending even a little time thoughtfully commenting - at least, many of them seem to be doing that.