= Java = 

The java package installs a Java runtime environment 6 + the Java Advanced Imaging libraries.

In order to be able to exploit the osgeo4w structure, keeping consistent with the original java jre structure, a ''bin'' and ''lib'' folder are needed. Therefore the jre is extracted and splitted into the root folder bin and lib, make that way the ''JAVA_HOME'' to be the root of osgeo4w, i.e. %OSGEO4W_ROOT%:
  * java.exe and native libs are extracted to ''osgeo4w''\bin
  * other libs are put in ''osgeo4w''\lib

'''Note that this makes it impossible to make two different versions of java coexist. For now java 6 is loaded. We can discuss about the possibility to put java 5 if there are projects that can't work with 6. Feel free to contact me.'''

A script is created to set the ''JAVA_HOME'' environmental variable to be %OSGEO4W_ROOT%. 

That way all the java based applications can exploit the virtual machine either through the ''JAVA_HOME'' variable or throught its direct path ''%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\java.exe''.


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