Java Deployment

This guide is DEPRECATED. It has been replaced by the JWeb Development, Distribution, and Deployment Guide. If you can't find information you need here, but do see it there, please let us know so we can put it where it belongs. (This version will be kept for JavaSE 6, but is slated to be removed for JavaSE 7.)

Note: This Java deployment guide describes features relea sed prior to Java SE 6u10.

See Java Rich Internet Applications Deployment Advice document for deployment changes introduced in Java SE 6u10.
See Java Runtime Environment Installation document for information on th e new Java Kernel installer, Java Runtime Environment installation and update.

Java™ Deployment is a broad-ranging topic, including the following:

Setting options in the Java Control Panel
Writing applications and applets in the Java Programming language
Authoring web pages that invoke applets or download and launch applications
Making Java-related files available on web servers
Updating the Java Platform on a computer

Some of these topics, such as setting options in the Java Control Panel and updating the Java Platform on a computer, are covered in the Java Deployment Guide mentioned below; others, such as Installation of the Java Platform and writing applications and applets, are covered elsewhere. For a more detailed description of the topics listed above, see the Overview in the Java Deployment Guide.

Java Deployment Guide

The Java Deployment Guide provides an overview of Java Deployment; describes the Java Control Panel, the Java Update mechanism, applet compatibility issues related to the Microsoft versus Sun VM, silent installation for Windows, and autodownload; and includes an installation and update FAQ.

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