Do you still choose java????

[Gerbrand van Dieijen]

So I question the worthwhile-ness of using an exe version, other than
making some windows clones 'happy' by showing them a 'trusty' exe.
But hey, the client is always right, so I guess there might be the odd
usage for something like Jet.
(ie, used for religious applications).

If you're only concern is having a .exe file, you can use a 'wrapper' too,
and include the JRE lib in your installation dir (not very weird, more
applications do that).
I use exe4j for that, and it works very fine. You java application is
wrapped in a exe file that is completely transparant to the user. It even
shows up as your application in the process list of windows (rather then
process java).

 

[Peter Ashford]

I'm finding the performance adequate overal for all three VM's, and
the garbage collector has really improved looks like, less intrusive,
although I was disappointed when I was playing a few applet games
online that had noticable pauses in it.

You can turn on the incremental garbage collector for the plugin which
will eliminate the pauses.