[icedtea-web] Why use a separate basedir for plugin?

[Omair Majid]

Hi,

I noticed that the plugin uses a different basedir (see 
JNLPRuntime.setBaseDir) from javaws. Is there a reason why?

Since committing the deployment configuration patch, I have been working 
on integrating it into icedtea-web (I believe that ~/.netxrc is 
deprecated as of now). The deployment settings however, do not 
distinguish between plugin and javaws - whether in terms of the cache 
they use or which certificates are considered trusted. Hence I would 
like to make them both use the same certificates and cache (and possibly 
other things). Are there any reasons against doing this?

Thanks,
Omair