Example: I have two shared objects (same should apply to .dlls). The first shared object is from a third-party library, we'll call it libA.so. I have wrapped some of this with JNI and created my own library, libB.so. Now libB depends on libA. When webstarting, both libraries are places in some webstart working area. My java code attempt...
Is it possible to get a thread dump of a Java Web Start application? And if so, how? It would be nice if there were a simple solution, which would enable a non-developer (customer) to create a thread dump. Alternatively, is it possible to create a thread dump programmatically? In the Java Web Start Console I can get a list of threads b...
Since the release of Adobe AIR I am wondering why Java Web Start has not gained more attention in the past as to me it seems to be very similar, but web start is available for a much longer time. Is it mainly because of bad marketing from Sun, or are there more technical concerns other than the need of having the right JVM installed? Do...
Hi I am trying to deploy an application using webstart. I have a requirement to update a jar which is signed before i actually deploy( basically to update the IP/Port info). I am trying to use ANT to update the jar. Is there are way to achive this? Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions ...
Recently I converted a Swing application to Webstart. The process was pretty straightforward, but I found that after I close all windows, my application's JVM did not terminate. The thread dump showed that there are a couple of non-daemon threads, notably Swing's EDT, AWT and a couple of websart related threads. The actual strategy use...
As it was made clear in my recent question, Swing applications need to explicitly call System.exit() when they are ran using the Sun Webstart launcher (at least as of Java SE 6). I want to restrict this hack as much as possible and I am looking for a reliable way to detect whether the application is running under Webstart. Right now I a...
Is there a .NET equivalent of Java Web Start? I want a one-click, from the web, lightweight install for a group of .NET assemblies and resources. Hopefully, the link would continue to keep the user updated with the latest version, similar to what Java Web Start does. The application is written in F#, for what it's worth. ...
hi, I have a swing application deployed in HTTP Server. Users use the browser to point an URL and install the client using java webstart. Now I need to enable https access to my application deployed on HTTP server. I am using JDK 1.5 as default jdk supported in the jnlp file. For time being I use a self signed certificate to the sign ...
I have an application that starts a Swing gui using java web start. The user has 4 versions of java 1.6 installed (1.6.0.3, 1.6.0.5, 1.6.0.7. 1.6.0.11) Webstart is selecting java version 1.6.0.11 but JAVA_HOME is set to java version 1.6.0.3. Could this cause any potential problems for webstart? rich ...
I have been building enterprise software for the last 10 years. In this time we have seen enterprise applications move from client server to thin clients. We have also seen the move to hosted solutions, albeit under a few names (asp, SaaS, cloud computing). With all these changes the impetuous has been mainly from driven from the IT d...
I've been working with web start for a couple years now and have experience with signing the jars and what not. I am taking my first attempt at deploying a RCP app with web start and though I have in fact signed all of the jars with the same certificate I keep getting this error: 'jar resources in jnlp are not signed by the same certific...
I want to distribute a webstart application which uses RMI. I want to avoid to ask the user the address of the RMI server, because the website that distributes the application is also the RMI server. Furthermore, I don't know the address of the server at build time, therefore the address must be added with ad hoc configuration to the J...
Customer X has asked for ways to improve the startup time of a Java process he uses. The problem is, it is not run through a jar file, but rather 'jnlp' (which I am assuming indicates it is a java webstart application) StartUserWorx.jnlp Is there a way to convert this to a JAR file and then have the user invoke the application locally...
I have this java swing application that I intend to sell over the internet. At the moment I'm leaning towards deploying the application using java webstart. The product will be licensed for the user to use the program on one computer at a time only. I am concerned about piracy with this model. I would like to install some security fe...
I ask because I have an unsigned jar that runs and a signed version that doesn't. Looking at the manifests, I see no main class thing for the signed one. Do I have to run a signed jar from web start? ...
I have output messages displayed on the Java console for an application that started using webstart. Instead of the user manually clearing message, is there a way of clearing console messages in code? These messages are printed at the rate of about 1000 per second and seem to end up using too much memory, i could have stopped the printi...
I found a bug in an application that completely freezes the JVM. The produced stacktrace would provide valuable information for the developers and I would like to retrieve it from the Java console. When the JVM crashes, the console is frozen and I cannot copy the contained text anymore. Is there way to pipe the Java console directly to ...
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The Web Start Developers Guide states All application resources must be retrieved from the JAR files specified in the resources section of the JNLP file, or retrieved explicitly using an HTTP request to the Web server. Storing resources in JAR files is recommended, since they will be cached on the local machine by J...
I wanted to get ideas from the SO community about this issue. Here is the problem: We have a user on the other side of the world launching our app through WebStart. The user, however, is complaining that her whole application freezes up and becomes unresponsive. Usually, the client is doing a lot of database queries to a distributed da...