Web Start

[Jennifer Goldstein]

Hi. The builds include IcedTea, but there's no javaws.exe.  Is there a way to run Web Start apps with this build?

Thanks.

[Alex Kasko]

Hi,

On 12/25/2013 08:46 PM, Jennifer Goldstein wrote:
> Hi. The builds include IcedTea, but there's no javaws.exe. Is there a way to run Web Start apps with this build?
>
> Thanks.
>

Web start in IcedTea is implemented in pure java, it is based on NetX -
http://jnlp.sourceforge.net/netx/

IcedTeas's javaws on linux is actually a bash script wrapper around the
netx.jar. I am going to write similar script for windows but haven't
done it yet. Right now you may run *.jnlp file using netx.jar manually
like this:

java -Xbootclasspath/a:netx.jar net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot
some.jnlp

NetX may be built from IcedTea-Web sources -
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web , I
am also attaching an older version I've built some time ago.

It should also work with vanilla OpenJDK and with Oracle Java - not only
with IcedTea builds.


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Regards,
Alex Kasko

[Jennifer Goldstein]

Awesome, thank you!