Hello, A couple of weeks ago I kicked off a discussion thread titled "Java Web Start Success Stories Wanted" over at Sun's Java Web Start forum. So far about half a dozen Web Start developers have shared their story.
For example, Jeff Prideaux writes: I'm using Java Web-start to provide code updates to a training APP for 109 customers so far. I deliver a CD with the media for the training APP. The CD has a conventional installer program that checks their computer to see if it already has Java and the plugins necessary (JMF). If not, it installs them. The training app is then launched through our web-site using Java-WebStart. We have a jsp page that dynamically provides a jnlp page. I jump through some hoops using a servlet and some server configuration to have the dynamic jnlp page work with passing parameters and having the desktop shortcut work as desired. The app makes a redundant check to the server to finish the user validation step. Java Web Start has worked fine for about 80% of our custoemrs. The rest seem to have one issue or another. Sometimes they get hung up with the installers. A silent Jave installer would be preferable. Sometimes a proxy-server messes things up. Sometimes they just have some problem I can't figure out. For those problematic users, I tend to make a more conventional installer that simply launches a version of the app that I provide. These users bypass Java Web Start and can't get automatic code updates. Originally had the training app as an applet were one applet would downlaod the real jar file to be executed. The applet would launch a new process with the downloaded jar file and then exit. When Java Web Start came out, I switched over to it. I'm not sure if my life would have been easier (or not) if I had stuck with the first stategy. I like programming in Java but using Java for external customers has been a bit of a challenge (for the installation, etc). Of course, once everything is installed correctly, things work fine. Full story @ http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=38&thread=510182 Of course I also invite you to share your Java Web Start success story. How do you use it? For how many installations? How's the server setup? Are you using Jardiffs? What alternatives have you considered (e.g. classic installers, etc.)? Please let us know. - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start News Wire | http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.jnlp.announce ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ lopica-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lopica-announce
