Unless I missed a subsequent announcement, this was a silent change of policy — my understanding from their earlier announcement had been that you'd have to get

Unless I missed a subsequent announcement, this was a silent change of policy — my understanding from their earlier announcement had been that you'd have to get a JRE from Oracle directly. Which gave me a bit of a scare when I realized my VPN software relied on Java and I hadn't seen any announcement from Oracle of a downloadable JRE. Happily, the first time I tried to connect, Lion popped up a window asking if I wanted to install Java; I said yes, and a few minutes later, everything worked as it always had.