How to capture video using JMF, but without installing JMF

Question

A videoconferencing project I was working on used JMF to capture video and audio, and transmit it to another endpoint. An issue was that my team didn\'t want the user of the

Answer 1

I don't think there is a better way. Unless the DLLs are explicitly loaded by path name, you would just need to make sure they are in the system path, so if they lived right next to the JVM executables it should also work. Windows does implicitly include the directory the program was started from in the system path, so that is another potential location.

Installers are a double edged sword, they make it easy to add new functionality and remove it later, but they also make it harder to deploy solutions that use the product.

One of the nice things about Java in general is that you don't have to install it for it to work. Essentially, once you perform the install of the JRE on one system, you can bundle it up and use it on another system as a zip file. Java doesn't need to explicitly register the DLLs because it loads them dynamically as needed.