#Install4j jre bundle install#
#Install4j jre bundle zip#

The other aspect that has convinced us that the JRE should be bundled with the app is user/admin knowledge of Java.Ī long time ago Oxygen did provide distributions without a JRE bundle and usually required a certain major version of Java. We cannot insure that Oxygen will run correctly with any version of Java, or even with minor updates of a specific major version. Other than the technical aspect of the customized JRE the main reason for bundling a JRE is using a specific version of Java for proper QA testingĪnd validation.

Your system installed JRE is most likely not including OpenJFX, so it's one of the reasons we do not encourage or support using an external JRE. Needless to say, Oxygen is officially supported only when used with the bundled Java runtime version that includes OpenJFX. Running Oxygen with an OpenJDK runtime that doesn't include OpenJFX will make those features unusable. There is also the technical aspect of the JRE bundled with Oxygen in that it uses a customized OpenJDK runtime that also includes OpenJFX (JavaFX), which is required for a few Oxygen features (embedded web browser used by the dynamic help and embedded media player in Author mode) and by some Oxygen third party plugins (e.g. We do not officially support running Oxygen with a random version of Java other than the one bundled with that version of Oxygen.

#Install4j jre bundle zip#

If you don't want to run an installer that uses that JRE, download the Windows ZIP package, unpack it and remove the 'jre' folder. It is also possible to remove the JRE bundle from the Windows ('jre' folder) and macOS ('.install4j/jre.bundle' folder) packages and let Oxygen run with your system installed JRE. app launchers in this distribution and no OS integration unfortunately, only command line scripts, but it works on any platform as long as you have a compatible version of Java indicated by the JAVA_HOME environment variable. So, you are aware of the package without a bundled JRE, Downloads > Other > All platforms (.tar.gz) download. If the bundled JRE version poses a security risk for the app, a security advisory will be issued and updates will be made available for the versions of the app that are still maintained. There is no reason a bundled private JRE of a desktop application would pose a security risk for the user or the system. It does not expose its bundled Java runtime to any other application. It simply includes a private Java runtime (a folder) within its own installation folder.

#Install4j jre bundle install#

Oxygen does not install Java at user or system level. The problem with security policy of some organizations is that they are sometimes written for a specific category of applications (client/server), and are rather black/white in reasoning. I will explain our reasoning for bundling a JRE below and its peculiarities (it's not a vanilla JRE), if you are interested, after discussing your arguments.

I'm sorry, but we are not planning to do that, at least not for Windows and macOS.