Nicola,
I suggest that you look again. Java WebStart is an application launcher,
but look at the JNLP underneath it. It is a resource downloading system.
As they say, and you quoted:
"The software distribution technology is only one aspect of JavaTM Web
Start. It also provides security, updates to the applications,
ease-of-use for end users, and flexibility for developers when they
create the applications."
> It cannot be used as-is though. It has no way of defining a jar
> repository, and it gets resources like this:
>
> <resources>
> <j2se version="1.3"/>
> <jar href="lib/SwingSet2.jar"/>
> </resources>
The version is for the application. For what you want to do, if each jar
had resource information in it, the check would be iterative. For example
jar that you load, you check the j2se version necessary.
> As you see there is no version info, the version info is about the whole
> JNPL descriptor.
A better example, from my perspective, is:
<resources>
<j2se version="1.2+"/>
<jar href="application.jar" version="1.1"/>
<jar href="lib.jar" version="2.1"/>
</resources>
Because that specifies which version of the jar is necessary. See also
version.xml.
> There was a bit of misunderstanding here because IIUC you were talking
> about getting the releases, I was talking about getting the jars for the
> developers.
Why not use it for both?
--- Noel
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