Hello again, Is there any official advice on this matter please?
Best regards, 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. On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 4:11 PM András Sik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
