I am about to deploy the my application using the last JFreeChart version, and since I am quite new at Java, I didn't realize from the beggining that my client's would have to download the JRE (11 MB!!!) to be able to use the tool. My clients are web users who probably only have the MS Explorer installed and no extra Java-Plug-in or anything like it.
Please, if there is anybody who can help me, is there anyway to avoid this, or to solve it in short-term.
Thank you,
Diego.
deployment emergency
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David Gilbert
Re: deployment emergency
Hi Diego,
Alas, there is no easy solution for you. JFreeChart needs the Java 2D API, which was included in Java from JDK 1.2 onwards. But Internet Explorer only supports JDK 1.1, which is many years old...so you need to have the Java plug-in installed for your applets to work.
I think this is one reason why servlets are popular, they have far fewer deployment problems since the end-user only sees HTML forms and images.
Regards,
Dave Gilbert
Alas, there is no easy solution for you. JFreeChart needs the Java 2D API, which was included in Java from JDK 1.2 onwards. But Internet Explorer only supports JDK 1.1, which is many years old...so you need to have the Java plug-in installed for your applets to work.
I think this is one reason why servlets are popular, they have far fewer deployment problems since the end-user only sees HTML forms and images.
Regards,
Dave Gilbert