Hans Dockter wrote:
Hi Paul,
On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Paul Speed wrote:
Wondering if anyone has played with getting webstart build/deployment
going in gradle. This sort of thing is notoriously painful in ANT and
now I'm looking at porting something over to gradle and was hoping to
avoid starting from scratch.
I poked around on the forums and wiki and couldn't seem to find anything.
we don't have any specific support for webstart yet. What kind of
support would you like to have?
- Hans
Yeah, I was hoping someone in the community may have dealt with this
already and could offer pointers.
Hand-producing jnlp files can be kind of painful. You either do it by
hand and duplicate your dependent jar list in the jnlp or you do it
automatically from the project dependencies (and their transient
dependencies). Also the jars need to be digitally signed and the whole
thing bundled into a .war or something.
We've tried various ways before in Ant but every new webstart project
was tedious. I expect this to be a lot easier in gradle since the
dependencies are easy to get. In Ant, we'd use template files and
produce the jnlp from that and only replace a few things like URLs, etc.
I think a proper gradle plug-in would be model based and fully
generate the jnlp from that. Bundling a .war with Sun's servlet would
be a bonus. [Sun has a standard servlet that they provide allowing
runtime substitution of things server URLs, etc.]
I have to get something working in the next week or so. It will be a
learning experience, I'm sure.
-Paul
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