Getdown application launcher options

[kamle...@gmail.com]

Hello,

We have been using Java Web Start to launch our an dekstop application within in our Web application all these years, but as Java has deprecated/removed Java Web Start starting Java 9,  we started looking for alternatives and stumbled upon GetDown. I had some basic question for the tool ,it would be great if I could get some answers on those

a) As i said earlier, we have a web base app (packaged as a WAR file in which the jnlp file resides), which has an hyperlink on click of which we launch an jnlp file which launches our desktop app. I was trying to use getdown to do similar functionality, but was not sure how do i launch the app using getdown from a webpage which is packaged inside the WAR file and I didn't saw an easy way to luanch getdown from an hyperlink from a webapp. (Don't think the web server option fits our need, but i might be wrong and thats where answer for this question might help)

b) Now lets say there is no easy way to get the above requirement done , i saw there were lot of examples of launching getdown using the  "java -jar myapp/getdown-X.Y.jar myapp" but i guess that way would assume that java is already installed on the user machine ? and may be we have to use the installer option to package java inside and install it on user machine and get it to launch getdown and eventually our app ?

Thanks in advance for taking time to read/response.

[Michael Bayne]

Getdown cannot launch an application from a web browser. It can only launch an application that has been installed by the user via some app install process: downloading and running an installer program, or via some app delivery service like Steam or an app store (though at that point you may want to just use the update mechanisms provided by the app delivery service instead of using Getdown at all).

It used to also be possible to run Getdown as a signed applet, but no browser supports applets these days.

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[kamle...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the Response. I believe the best bet is to package everything in an install-able file and give a download link from our webpage and let the user download and install.