[OSM-talk] Java and JOSM

[john whelan]

So basically if I'm running JOSM natively on the machine I need JAVA.

I live in hope that one day I can get the functionality of JOSM and its
plugins without having to run JAVA.

Thanks John

On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 10:24 Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/04/2021 16:19, John Whelan wrote:
> > I note that 17702 mentions OpenWebStart
> >
> > Does this mean I can remove JAVA from my machine and run JOSM with
> > openwebstart?
> >
> JOSM is still written in Java and requires a Java runtime to execute it.
>
>
> As to what OpenWebStart is, the best place to start to find out is
> probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Web_Start ,
> https://openwebstart.com/ows/ and https://openwebstart.com/docs/FAQ.html
> .  Also, https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Download#Webstart explains
> how it works with JOSM.
>
> Personally, I've never used the webstart version of JOSM (preferring to
> download a particular version and only upgrading when I need to to
> resolve an issue), and have used that with OpenJDK on various platforms
> with no issues.  I tend to only use a small subset of functionality in
> JOSM though.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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