WebStart Install Fail

[Tom Eugelink]

And thank you for appreciating the spare time we put into this. You are welcome.

Tom



On 2012-12-12 20:07, Scott Palmer wrote:
> Recall the previous discussions about deployment...
>
>   I just tried to start the JFXExtras 2  Ensemble application.
>
> I clicked the image to run it via web start.
> It downloaded and I saw a progress bar in a window titled "JavaFX
> Application Preview" and then the JRE 1.7.0_10 installer failed.
> "Unable to launch the application."
> Name: J2RE 1.7.0_10 Installer
> Publisher: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> From: http://javadl.sun.com
>
> (Not from Oracle?)
>
> Details:
> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
> C:\Users\scott.palmer\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\ext\E1355338521796\j2re-installer.dll:
> Can't load IA 32-bit .dll on a AMD 64-bit platform
>      at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
>      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(Unknown Source)
>      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
>      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
>      at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Unknown Source)
>      at java.lang.System.load(Unknown Source)
>      at com.sun.webstart.installers.Main.install(Main.java:156)
>      at com.sun.webstart.installers.Main.main(Main.java:554)
>      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
>      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
>      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
>      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)
>      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)
>      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source)
>      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
>      at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
>
> In other words... a pathetic user experience.
>
> I would have thought that the people behind the JFXExtras project are
> pretty competent developers.  If they can't get the JFXExtras project
> deployment to work...
>
>
> Scott