[rfc][icedtea-web] do exec java instead of plain java in javaws

[Jiri Vanek]

On 08/20/2012 06:57 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As it is now `"${COMMAND[@]}"` in javaws launcher, the process with swing application can not be killed correctly from commandline
> If you will run some swing testcase eg http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorialJWS/uiswing/events/ex6/ComponentEventDemo.jnlp from http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web-Tests,
> and then you will try to kill it, you will discover that the swing window is still alive... Well it looks like me as incorrect. I must admit taht I do not see huge difference betwenn 'exec' and 'nothing', but it looks like exec is commonly used (eg google-chrome, firefox) in applications using shell launcher.
> So I would like to intorduce this change.
> ok for head? (what about 1.3? I'm for too :o) )
>
>
> J.

I forgot to add that exec is solving the "immortality" problem above ;)

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