Jet: which version to use?

[baegsi]

I'm planning to have a native exe for my next game. So far as I understand it there's no serious alternative to Excelsior JET, right? There are two editions available, Standard and Professional, and I'm wondering if Standard edition would be good enough for a game (which would help my tight indie budget a lot ).

I'm using lwjgl, no AWT/Swing whatsoever. Any experiences?

[princec]

Both are fine.
Standard is much easier to use but you have to ship megs and megs of DLLs along with the game. Maybe that's not such a big issue any more. If you don't use AWT or Swing it can be fairly small.
Pro has a global optimiser and squeezes true C++ performance out of the JVM but it's incredibly fiddly to get it right.

Cas

[Danskeren]

I use j4exe but it has stupid bugs when you try to use some classes like Random and Scanner.

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[baegsi]

Do you mean exe4j? It's cheap but what I understand it does not compile into native code, it just provides an exe