Hello, I've been working for quite a while on a project that uses Java Web start. This was all fine until it ran on Java 8, but due to recent changes in the development process of the company I work for that became no longer possible. The project is being ported to Java 11, where this feature is no longer available. This would be all fine since I knew this would happen, and thought to bridge the gap with OpenWebStart.
Long story short I do not think this is currently possible, and/or I have no idea what I should be doing about this. The IDE automatically disables the WS checkbox in case it cannot find the required libraries for the current project platform. Since I like reading sources, I've found out this is done on purpose (in JWSProjectProperties.java) and is most likely the right thing to do. At this point I do not know if it would be possible to properly configure and compile a Java WS project in NetBeans if there are no libraries available. Well, it kind of works, since if I set the corresponding property to true (jnlp.enabled) in ANT before doing the build (those properties are frozen afterwards due to ANT specification), it compiles fine, but this is a very poor solution, and I'd like something more acceptable. (On a side note I'm currently having trouble launching the JNLP with OpenWebStart, but that seems to be a different problem.) Does anyone know how to go about this properly? Thanks in advance, András -- To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
