On Registering Your JDK and Being Honest
I installed a new JDK today on my windows box. A Java6update10-RC. When done installing, the installer opens up a web page at Sun, asking me to “register my jdk”. To justify such registration, Sun lists these 4 areas, where this should benefit me:
- Notification of new versions, patches, and updates
- Special offers on Sun developer products, services and training
- Access to early releases and documentation
- Ability to track and manage your registered products and systems on the Sun Inventory site
Let’s take a closer look at these 4 “nice”, extra things, Sun will give me, if I register:
Notifications I already get, really annoying, from the popup balloons on the windows task bar about a new new JDK ready for me. Cannot even say no to them.
Then there are the “Special offers on Sun developer products, services and training”, which to me is other words for .. SPAM.
Of course, I would like “Access to early releases and documentation”, … which can be accessed anyway, without the registration, right.
And last, the “Ability to track and manage your registered products and systems on the Sun Inventory site“. So I can go and login at Sun, to see what I have installed on my own laptop?
What the f…
How about calling it what it is. Sun wants some information about JDK installations. Please ask nicely and honest for it then!
August 22, 2008
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5 Responses
You can disable update notifications from the Windows Control Panel.
I agree. I also think the reason to register Sun presents are silly. Sun have some problems with user experience and marketing. This should be stated as clearly as you did. Maybe they’ll understand.
For updates – they are a must, but notification in the tray when applet is started? What the heck is it for? Sun, please, disable tray notification icon by default!
lol Yeah I noticed the browser redirect too after installing update 10 rc on Linux. But as 99% of people do subjected to such behavior I closed it. It really feels like the SUN divisions don’t talk to each other, I mean, they also have a SDN program which I don’t think I have ever gotten any benefit from. To their credit though, you do not have to register and login to download Java and NetBeans. That’s one of the reasons people get annoyed at Oracle’s JDeveloper.
i have to agree with you on this one
“Notifications I already get, really annoying, from the popup balloons on the windows task bar about a new new JDK ready for me.”
wrong, this is for the JRE, not the JDK
“Then there are the “Special offers on Sun developer products, services and training”, which to me is other words for .. SPAM.”
maybe, maybe not, I have get free courses and discounts, this for me is not spam
other two I agree.
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