Between Java Webstart, Desktop applications and Applets, It's always seemed to me like Java had a lot of deployment options. Consider the JWS setup used by TopC

Between Java Webstart, Desktop applications and Applets, It's always seemed to me like Java had a lot of deployment options. Consider the JWS setup used by TopCoder's IDE/Client[1] or Bytonic's Jake2[2]- both always impressed me as pretty seamless. In your opinion, does it come down to the overhead of needing the runtime? Something else? [1]http://www.topcoder.com/ http://www.topcoder.com/ [2]http://bytonic.de/html/jake2.html http://bytonic.de/html/jake2.html