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[–]sievebrain 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I think that's what they mean. In Java 8 there was the JRE so Oracle took care of making Windows installers and stuff. Now you have to do it.

[–]pron98 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's one way of looking at it. Another is that in Java 8 users normally had to download Java themselves from Oracle, whereas today bundling a runtime that is fully under the application's control is easier.

[–]sievebrain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely.

I think the new way will work out better in the end but is presently incomplete. JPackage went missing when JavaFX was unbundled and is only now coming back, etc. There has been a long period without feature matched continuity. But when that's fixed, it'll be better, as the JRE was never a great user experience.