Improve JRE installer performance by using smaller/targeted patches

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    • Type: Enhancement
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: P2
    • 7
    • Affects Version/s: 5.0u8, 7
    • Component/s: install
    • b64
    • generic, x86
    • generic, windows_xp
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        The Windows Installer for the JRE (and java update) is too slow. We can improve this through patch-in-place for non-statically installed JREs. See Problem #1, #2, and #2 for more info at:

        http://j2se.east/~billyh/dolphin/plan/dolphin.html
        The fix for this (uncverified) was delivered into JDK7 b64 as part of:
        6797688: Umbrella: Merge all JDK 6u4 - 6u12 deployment code into JDK7

              Assignee:
              William Harnois
              Reporter:
              William Harnois
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