If you would like to have your internet customers download Sun JRE to run your applets inside Internet Explorer, you should consider hosting the Java technology logos at your web site. More information is available about the logos at:
http://logos.sun.com/logosite.jsp?Category=third#javaWhen users click on any one of these logos, a security dialog box pops-up the screen to confirm whether the user would like to install and run Java Plug-in, signed and distributed by Sun Microsystems. If they agree to install, the browser will download and launch the installer. The user will have to go through a few installer dialogs to successfully install Java Plug-in on their system. After the successful installation, the browser will display a confirmation message, and the system tray will contain a Java icon, indicating the system is running the Sun JRE.
You can distribute Sun JRE to intranet users by hosting the .msi
file on an internal web site and asking users to launch the installer
through msiexec. The other option is to install the JRE
through Active Directory. If you are using Active Directory, you may
have to customize the .msi file, which is known as
creating a transform.
You can obtain the .msi file for the JRE installer by
installing the JRE offline Windows installer. After installation, the
.msi file, jre1.6.0_xx.msi, will be available
in the directory AppDataFolder\jre1.6.0, where
AppDataFolder is the
user's "Application Data" folder.
msi file location for Windows XP users:
C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\Sun\Java\jre1.6.0_xx
msi file location for Windows Vista users:
C:\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\jre1.6.0_xx
Note: xx in jre1.6.0_xx refers to the version number. For example, jre1.6.0_03.