JWS Feedback

[Scott Kovatch]

On May 2, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Jeff Palmer wrote:

> Tried to create java.net account so this could be posted in the location requested.  Never got confirm message.  Sent test message from elsewhere & showed up right away.  Hit back button & addr was right.  Submitted again & email & user name taken.  Anyway, here is what would have been posted:
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> - Always trust content from this publisher text is cramped from text above.

Please file a bug. I always said it at Apple, and I'm saying it again at Oracle. :-)

> - Explicitly requesting a 1.6 version gets Unsupported version of Java dialog. Same with 1.6+, 1.7, & 1.7.0_06-ea.  Leaving out version tag correctly errors, saying there must be a version.  This makes JWS virtually untestable.  Prefer 1.6+ to work, so same .jnlp can work for Snow Leopard.

Can you add 1.6 to the list of JREs in the Java Control Panel? Choose 'Java' -> 'View…' -> 'Find' and then navigate to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines? It should find any 1.6 JDK installed there. Then click OK and 'Apply'. We should then start using 1.6 if the JNLP wants it.

While this is not as good as discovering Java 6 automatically, we aren't currently supporting that. We may end up doing it but not guaranteeing compatibility with Java 6.

> - The signing checking of comparing Application.jnlp in jar to website's works as before. Refuses to run, when they do not match.

I'm not sure what you are describing here. Do you think this is a bug? I believe this is a feature of Web Start in JDK 7, but I'm not as up-to-date on the internals as I used to be.

-- Scott K.

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Scott Kovatch
scott.kovatch at oracle.com
Santa Clara/Pleasanton, CA