Ok - so it seems my problem tracking wound up finding something already
known:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-4281
We're hitting the exact same issue. Odd, because I did a JIRA search but
must have missed this one.
I'll make further comments or proposed solutions in the JIRA iss
I recall a thread some time back about issues using Felix with WebStart
as a result of j7u45 security changes.
I'm not sure how far the investigations progressed, but I thought I'd
report my findings in this area.
This will be rather a long email, but the summary is that with a latest
trunk