JRE-Bundling with the Look & Feel of the current XP-Theme
It is always recommended to deliver a JRE with your Eclipse-Product, because it has tow major advantages.
- The client needn’t to install java (probably he doesn’t have the rights or the competence).
- You can be sure that all your clients use the same version and vendor of the vm.
But theres also a great advantage: Sun doesn’t provide by default a manifest-file for displaying the widgets in the current theme of your operating-system (see http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6178745), but uses the default look&feel of Windows. To fix this you need to the javaw.exe.manifest, located in your org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86_x.y.z.jar-Plugin Package.
To bundle your VM, just create a folder “jre” in your [Eclipse-Root]-Directory copy the vm, take the Manifest-file and copy it to [Eclipse-Root]/jre/bin
Add comment March 19th, 2006