[NTLUG:Discuss] JavaWS?

[Stan Gatchel]

Thanks everyone. Lots of good ideas here.

Stan

David Stanaway wrote:
> Robert Pearson wrote:
>   
>> On 4/26/06, Stan Gatchel <sgatchel at psltech.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Does any body know anything about JavaWS (Java Web Start)?
>>>
>>> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/javaws/developersguide/javaws.html
>>>
>>> I am trying to test a new web conferencing product that requires JavaWS
>>> to work. I have SuSE 10 on AMD 64. Apparently SuSE doesn't install it.
>>> Any ideas on how to get this an install it?
>>>       
>> After my early optimistic reply I did some Googling for---
>> "SuSE 10 AMD 64 javaws"
>>
>> JavaWS and the plugin were not there in late 2005 and I cannot find
>> anything with Google that says it is there now.
>>
>> It is there for the 32 bit releases.
>>     
>
> I don't understand why the javaws concept which seems pretty good isn't 
> implemented in pure java at least as a reference platform. There is the 
> same problem for Linux/PPC too.
>
> The xml webstart files are pretty easily human parsable, if you need to, 
> you can just download the jar modules and add them to the classpath with 
> the -cp arg to your jre incantation.
>
> I just found this with a quick google:
> http://lopica.sourceforge.net/faq.html#opensourcelinks
>
> Apparently the source is available for webstart, but you have to agree 
> to some restrictive usage agreement. Maybe you can get the source if you 
> agree to the terms and build a 64 bit version.
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