Does Flex needs it’s own JRE?
Short answer: no! Full answer here. However when I had Flex2 beta2 installed, I deleted the JRE that installed with Flex because I already had the JRE 5.0 installed and it caused no problems at all. I don’t really like the idea that every application installs it’s own JRE on my harddisk (Maya is such another app). Not that the ~50Mb are wasting too much space but its getting confusing if there are many JRE’s installed and Windows doesn’t make this fact easier with it’s obscure environment variables configuration.
One Response to “Does Flex needs it’s own JRE?”
By Jon
on Feb 8, 2008 | Reply
Maya only includes the JRE because of the docserver. I’ve got versions 6.5 through 2008 unlimited installed on both my XP Pro machine and Mac quad G5 at work.
I usually remove the JRE installed with the docserver because it’s useless.
There are ways around letting Maya install it’s own JRE but it’s been a while since I’ve messed with the install process.