[clug] Why isn't Java popular on the Linux Desktop?

[Sam Couter]

steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Steve Landers in Perth created "StarKits" in Tcl around 2001. Gave
> papers in 2002/3.
> They are a single file laid out as a filesystem, think zip/tar/cpio,
> containing the complete application - code, libraries, classes...

What Daniel said about this not being as great an idea as it first
seems.

> Cute technology. I believe something not dissimilar is available in
> Perl. Not sure about other languages.

I've written a Java equivalent before for desktop deployment. I
implemented mine by unpacking library jars to a temp directory and
creating a new classloader with all those jars in the classpath to run
the real application. A better way would be a classloader that opened
jars directly inside the application jar, but I didn't have that much
time available.
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