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Why do I need to install JRE 1.5 and Java Web Start before getting the Club Cycom software?

April 26, 2017club install Java JRE Software web

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Why do I need to install JRE 1.5 and Java Web Start before getting the Club Cycom software?

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A. The Club Cycom software will run on Macintosh, Unix (Solaris, Linux) and Microsoft platforms. The Java Web Start layer is required to hide the peculiarities of specific operating systems from the portable Club Cycom software. In an ideal world, the operating system vendors will have already installed the Java Web Start layer for you and new Apple Macs with OS-X will soon do this. Until then, you have to do it yourself, but only once! The benefits are that you can choose to change computers or operating systems and know that you will still have access to your Club Cycom software and any other Java based software. You are not obliged to buy Microsoft. We are protecting you and ourselves from possible anti-competitive actions by a vendor with a virtual monopoly and also giving that vendor a motivation to improve the openness, security and reliability of its products.