[icedtea-web] RFC: remove default.jnlp

[Omair Majid]

On 01/24/2011 04:25 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 15:58 Mon 24 Jan     , Omair Majid wrote:
>> The attached patch removes default.jnlp from icedtea-web. This seems to
>> be a copy of about.jnlp (About.jnlp gets invoked on javaws -about), but
>> is completely unused. Ok to remove?
>>
>
> Does the name have any special significance?  Have you checked it isn't loaded
> or something if you don't specify a JNLP file?
>

That's what I thought at first. Running javaws with no-args prints out 
the help message. I grepped the entire source and default.jnlp does not 
appear anywhere. Digging into it's history, here is what I found: 
icedtea6 changeset bd6babe8221f [1], which introduced the about.jnlp 
file, also changed the uses of default.jnlp to about.jnlp (the relevant 
changes are in rt/net/sourceforge/jnlp/runtime/Boot.java). The changeset 
should also have deleted default.jnlp.

> On the subject of about.jnlp, can someone please update it so recent work is credited?
> It currently gives all credit to Jon Maxwell and Joshua Sumali.
>

I can take a look at it. Updating the in-repository copy should not be 
too hard, but about.jnlp is actually run from the classpath servers, and 
I do not have permission to edit icedtea.classpath.org:/var/www/netx.

Cheers,
Omair

[1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/bd6babe8221f