[ryannielsen]

Photoshop and other Adobe apps have components written in Java. Without Java, those components will silently fail. Thus, the on-demand Java installation hooks will be present for as long as current versions of CS are supported on OS X. For reference, Adobe CS 3, released 5 years ago, is still supported by Mountain Lion: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/faq.html#a139_12...

I suspect the on-demand Java installation process will be around for quite some time.

[jpxxx]

Ach, you're right. The extensions loader alone blows up on boot. It'd be infeasible to remove the Apple JRE from the field. So much for my pet theory.