I too evaluated using JNLP but at the time the application was either distributed via the company's web site, delivered manually by a technician wielding a USB drive, or from a CD provided with hardware.
JNLP's signing seemed far too concerned with validating the website the software comes from for that case, but it is possible that I misunderstood something along the way. The USB and CD approaches might seem stupid in these halcyon days where you can send emails from the bathroom, but the application was a client for security cameras and the relevant machines were often deliberately made offline. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/29/2011 03:59 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >> I´m trying to package a Java application for launching via Java Web Start. >> >> The developer of a freeware Java application once told me: >> >> -verbatim quote- >> "Actually, I avoided Java Web Start because of the nightmare of >> signing Jar files which would tie up the rest of my life in misery. I >> did have a go a few years ago but gave up after a few weeks of solid >> work having failed to get it to work on even one platform. Of course, >> things may have got better since then, but the mental scars still >> linger." >> -end quote- > > This kind of statement is the one that hits my nervers. Doomsday is > mentioned, but absolutely no trace of details. I and my customers have been > using JNLP for a long time. We experienced some bug with the jarsigner, but > disappeared in a few hours. > > For what concern the IDE support, honestly I'm quickly forgetting everything > is not Maven centered (I can generate JNLP out of my NetBeans Platform > applications with a goal of the related Maven plugin), but if I remember > well NetBeans has got a "Create JNLP" option for Swing apps, possibly since > 6.5. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
