It's a little different than DLL hell: most applications provide their own libraries precisely to avoid DLL hell. Rather than relying on (or trying to install

It's a little different than DLL hell: most applications provide their own libraries precisely to avoid DLL hell. Rather than relying on (or trying to install) some globally-shared DLL, they include their own versions of libraries, and it doesn't matter if those versions match the versions used by other applications. (As a developer you have to worry about dependency differences between libraries, but as an application installer/user you don't have to worry about it once the developer's got everything working and bundled up). The Linux distro guys are in some ways asking Java applications to go back to a world where DLL Hell is possible, which might be good for distro packagers but would be a disaster for developers.