openjdk icedtea javaws

[Jiri Vanek]

On 12/07/2012 02:17 PM, Chris H. wrote:
> 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
>

Hi!

Yap, You are on best list for this topic :)
Thank you for your report, but  I'm afraid it is known issue:(
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=906


You can see - http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#IcedTea-Web_2.0 -  it is scheduled for 
remote future:(



J.