Java web start - Unable to load resource

Question

Hi all,

I've got a jar that loads great with java web starter when I browse through the IP address of the server. Once I try the server name instead I get the following exception:

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload$DownloadTask.call(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

The warrped exception:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor2.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doRequest(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doRequest(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doGetRequest(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload$DownloadTask.call(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(Unknown Source) ... 15 more

JNLP:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<jnlp
    spec="1.0+"
    codebase="http://servername/Site/Views/.."
    href="">
    <information>
        <title>title</title>
        <vendor>vendor</vendor>
        <description>description</description>
        <description kind="short">short</description>
        <icon href="../../icon.gif" />
    </information>
    <security>
        <all-permissions/>
    </security>
    <resources>

        <j2se version="1.5+" java-vm-args="-Xmx1000M -Xms150M" initial-heap-size="150M" max-heap-size="1000M" />
        <j2se version="1.4.2+" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" java-vm-args="-Xmx1000M -Xms150M" initial-heap-size="150M" max-heap-size="1000M" />

        <jar href="/file.jar"/>
    </resources>
    <application-desc main-class="com....">
        <argument>CD6B172DEC34924D83EA64A61A6550BE1271325929392</argument>
        <argument>http://servername/file.asp&lt;/argument&gt;
        <argument>/Site</argument>
    </application-desc>
</jnlp>

Any idea what should I look for?

Answer 1

Try using Janela to diagnose the problem.

Answer 2

I've changed the java proxy settings to direct connection - and it works.

Answer 3

I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, but I have looked at one of my jnlp files and I have put in the full path to each of my jar files. (I have a velocity template that generates the app.jnlp file which places it in all the correct places when my maven build runs)

One thing I have seen happen is that the jnlp file is re-downloaded by the by the webstart runtime, and it uses the href attribute (which is left blank in your jnlp file) to re-download the file. I would start there, and try adding the full path into the jnlp files too...I've found webstart to be a fickle mistress!