No Application in Java 6 JRE Web Start cache viewer

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twc - 05 Jan 2007 17:38 GMT

Hi,

windows xp pro platform...

I have an app which uses WebStart. On upgrade to
Java 6, on one system I can see it in the javaws -viewer
cache viewer. On another system, there's no way I can
get it to appear in the list of applications in the cache
viewer, even though it installs and runs normally form
the .jnlp link off a webserver.

Why this most basic of features not working? I completely
deleted the entire Deployment subtree, hoping it would
start fresh. It does download the entire app and components
but it simply never puts it in the list of Applications.

The app components show up in the list of "Resources"
but since it isn't in the Application list, I can't install
desktop shortcuts.

Any ideas what's wrong? I installed update 1 (b199) hoping
it would be fixed, but apparently not.

Thanx.

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twc - 09 Jan 2007 13:48 GMT

SAME JARS, DIFFERENT JNLP ATTRIBUTES

As far as I can determine, this issue arises when the
underlying signed jars are the same, but using two different
JNLP control files.

For example, one jnlp file runs under java 5, and the other
has different attributes for running under java 6. On the
windows platform, the DirectDraw flag is one obvious
different that's required, etc.

There appears to be optimization which prevents the two
different jnlp files from being considered as TWO different
applications, which is what is desired.

Two jnlp files should equate to TWO different applications
in the application cache viewer, imho.

> Hi,
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> Thanx.

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No Application in Java 6 JRE Web Start cache viewer

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