openjdk icedtea javaws

[Chris H.]

Dear distro-pkg-dev@

I confess I am unclear if I am writing to the correct group/address to
raise this matter; my apologies if I have got this wrong.
Hopefully someone can let me know where best to send this if it is
incorrectly posted.

Regarding IcedTea javaws  (latest from repository running on
Suse12.1),   I am concerned to know if it [javaws] operates correctly
(or are there known issues) with regard to:

- the '-noupdate' switch

- checking for new versions and only downloading if new versions exist

My concerns are raised by observing that javaws appears to download
(some, if not all)  files for a webstart app regardless of whether
they are in the cache or not (tested by closing and re-running the app
in close succession and observing the file download graphic/popup) .

In addition, using the '-verbose' switch (with and without the
'-noupdate')   demonstrates  what looks like logging downloading
operations  ("Status: CONNECTED DOWNLOADED STARTED +(CONNECTED
DOWNLOADED STARTED)")  again regardless of whether file is cached or
not.

['-verbose' extract]
"
.
.
normalizing query null in
http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/maven2/antlr/antlr/2.7.7-3/antlr-2.7.7-3.jar
Nothing was normalized in this url
not updating: http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/maven2/antlr/antlr/2.7.7-3/antlr-2.7.7-3.jar
Status: CONNECTED DOWNLOADED STARTED +(CONNECTED DOWNLOADED STARTED) @
/maven2/antlr/antlr/2.7.7-3/antlr-2.7.7-3.jar
.
.
.
"

I hope I have explained this well enough for someone to advise and comment.
Thank you in advance for any help.

BC Habs