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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Thoughts on runtime deployment
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This article talks about managing the deployment of Java apps with the JRE, but it seems timely to as Product Manager for Cincom Smalltalk. Why? We are in the process of developing a simpler runtime deployment system for VisualWorks, and a lot of the issues in the aforementioned article - while written in the context of Java deployment - raise some good questions for any runtime deployment system. I'm going to have to keep a lot of the questions raised here in mind.