On 23.04.2012 13:04, Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
> We have also another application that is based on uDig which is launched 
> through JWS. I see that that application is saving user preferences into a 
> local directory. The location of user data is given in the launching jnlp 
> file as in resources/property as
>  <property 
>         name="osgi.instance.area" 
>         value="c:/data/application"/>
> 
> Application creates initial configuration files into this data directory but 
> they are not overwritten later and thus users can use some individual 
> settings which remain even after updates.
> 
> JWS is a nice idea but it is a bit complicated to use in managed environment. 
> For example the data dir location above means that all the users must have 
> rights to create the c:/data/application directory and read/write/execute 
> files inside it. Some of our users did not have write access to C: drive at 
> all which made some pain. Also the proxy settings of JWS launched 
> applications must be set through the Java settings in the control panel which 
> is not so obvious. Anyway I would be interest to serve OpenJUMP through JWS 
> also from my server when Matthias discovers how to make the tools menu 
> available.

using a fixed path seems stupid to me. why is it not asking jvm for the users 
home dir and using this, which is writable for sure?

..ede

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