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Re: Simulating WebStart on MRJ 2.2

James,

Whilst I am not sure if this will work under MRJ2.2 try looking at
http://openjnlp.nanode.org/

If anything will be close to letting you do this it will be OpenJNLP. You
can at least modify the application to work under 2.2 (hopefully you dont
need to make a non 1.3 DOM implementation to support it) and then have the
application you build on Mac (OpenJNLP using the Mac MRJ app builder) can be
the application which caters for JNLP files from Internet Explorer. Then -
as long as your Java application which is being launched can cater for MRJ
2.2 then you can use a generic webstart deployment. The key issues here is
that 1. your mrj2.2 client will need LOTS of work to run with the 1.1.8
version of Swing and still be working on 1.3 and 1.4
2. you may (probably) need to do lots of work to get the openjnlp app to run
under mrj2.2 and
3. you will need to distribute several sun jars (namely swing 1.1.8) with
both openjnlp AND the webstart client (using conditional download)



on 16/11/02 7:11 AM, James Bucanek at email@hidden wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm starting on a major "web enabled" client application project. Our latest
> magaement system is operated through a web brower, which needs to launch said
> application.
>
> For Windows and OS X, WebStart is the obvious solution. And it provides all
> kinds of cool version and JVM control options that will make deployment,
> upgrades, and management sweet.
>
> However, our target market is education and we're just not ready to leave the
> millions of Macs running OS 8/9 behind.
>
> So, I'd like to find out if anyone has attempted to do approximately what
> WebStart does in an MRJ 2.2 environment? What I'm thinking of is a signed
> applet that can start (Runtime.exec()?) the client application, ideally
> passing it configuration parameters via a document. It would be a huge bonus
> if the applet could also download the client application and/or kick off an
> installer for it. But a manual install of the client would be acceptable.
>
> Is this something that an applet running in IE or Netscape under OS 8/9 is
> capable of doing? Any "gothcha's" or caveats that I should know about?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
>
>
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