Re: runnable WDSCi from a thumb drive?

albartell wrote:
> You could get an external HD to be rid of the size limitation.  I purchased
> an 80GB external HD last year for around $60 from BestBuy. Should work the
> same as a thumb drive (at least with Windows XP there was zero
> configuration).

This is true ... I picked up a USB 2 housing for a 2.5" hard drive for
about $25 at compusa.  It supports capacity up to 160gb, I think, and is
fully bus powered (no external power adapter needed).  More than enough
for WDSC.  It's about the size of a PDA.

> The only stopper would be if there were Windows hooks built into WDSc
> (before that is what CODE had I believe).  But if you look at the base
> eclipse install it just unzips into the directory of your chioce.  Note that
> eclipse requires a JRE to already be loaded so I don't know if it would have
> trouble finding it if the eclipse software was loaded on an external HD.

I'm pretty sure WDSC includes a JRE ... IBM's J9 implementation, I think.

Actually, if someone can figure out a way to do this ... it could be
used to make WDSC incredibly easier to deploy in a large organization
... install it in once place, and then just copy the application from
system to system.

Somehow I don't think it's going to be that easy though.

david