WebStart Install Fail

[Joe McGlynn]

Hi Scott,

The publisher (signer) was changed to Sun for this release intentionally due to problems in the past with the JRE autoupdate on Win 32, so that's expected.

Can you file a bug on this please with the details on your platform (OS, pre-existing JRE, etc?)

I just tried this and it works as expected on my system that already has 7u10 installed.

 

On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> 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