DeltaWalker is offered in, at a minimum, two types of installer packages per supported platform:
The native installers offer the advantage of a tighter DeltaWalker integration with the target Operating and/or Windowing System. For instance, the DeltaWalker MSI installer can create a desktop, a start menu program, and a quick launch bar shortcuts. It also can install a shell extension and can add a context-sensitive menu to the Windows Explorer, which would allow you to easily launch DeltaWalker comparisons from the context-menu in Windows Explorer. The actual installation of these is, of course, optional.
Zip files offer the simplest way of deployment - download, unzip, locate the DeltaWalker executable, and run it. To uninstall - simply delete the DeltaWalker installation folder. Note that we strongly recommend against unzipping over an existing DeltaWalker installation as this may be a source of subtle runtime errors.
Where it makes sense, Deltopia also offers a third type of installer - a DeltaWalker-JRE bundle. Such an installer is ideal for users who don't currently have one of the DeltaWalker-required JREs, or who want to setup and run DeltaWalker with the latest JRE, without changing the JRE currently configured for use by other Java applications. The DeltaWalker-JRE bundle features the latest Sun JRE and all the advantages that come with that - latest performance improvements, fixes, etc. To reiterate - such JRE is installed and made available exclusively to DW to eliminate any possibility of disrupting the rest of your system. Currently Deltopia offers a DeltaWalker-JRE bundle only on Microsoft Windows, for two reasons: