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[J_Rey]

J2SE(TM) Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 3 Multi-language (JRE-1.5.0_03):
On the How To Install a DotPup page (http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/DotPups) it says that "the latest version is 1.5.0_03, but it is not available yet on their manual download page." But actually you can download it manually from the Sun Developer Network at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp. Although, you have to accept a license agreement, first....

[GuestToo]

i saw your post, but my dotpup program can't download directly from the webpage with update 3 ... it can download directly from the manual download page, but that version is still update 2

[papaschtroumpf]

Guest2, if I understand your post, the installer either gets removed or can be removed after java is installed, but even then java still weighs in at 84M?
Yikes! I wanted java on my USB keydrive and that's a lot!
is there a way to "trim the fat"?

[GuestToo]

yes, the java folder is 84 megs after it is installed

there are alternative java run time environments (and sdk's) ... for example:

http://www.kaffe.org/

http://sablevm.org/

i think they are smaller, but some programs may not run on them ... Azureus would not run properly on 1.5.0_02, but they are supposed to have fixed that, so it will run on 02 now

[papaschtroumpf]

prior experience with kaffe and blackdown were not good (were the default java install under Mandrake).