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Originally Posted by
alvinoo
I check in Windows there is Portable JRE. However as I don't wish to install in client machine I will need to use a temporary JRE to setup in the operating system.
What you mean by "portable", i take it, is: a "package" which works around the systems package management and can be "installed" without being really installed: yes, you can do that in AIX too - with the same drawbacks involved as on other platforms.
You will have (duh!) no package management (that is:
installp and all its commands won't recognise it as package), you can't distribute it with methods employing the package management implicitly (like NIM, ....) and you will have neither support from the admin nor will the resulting system be like the admin expects it to be, because he won't know the software running on it - which can be a problem when trying to manage (work-)load and distribute resources. It is also a security hazard because different JREs have different security holes and updates (respectively: the constraint to certain versions) happen usually out of neccessity to meet certain security requirements.
Strictly technically speaking: you can do what you propose, but it is most likely a very bad idea and if i were the admin of such a system I'd make you remove/not use such software.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
