Icedtea / OpenJDK running a Java Web Start (.jnlp) app

[Fernando Cassia]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:03, Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have icedtea-web installed on a Fedora 15 system, and it provides
> javaws. I just save the .jnlp file, and then run it with javaws using:
>
>  $ javaws file.jnlp
>
> SK

Yes, but that's not the idea of Java Web Start. The idea of Java Web
Start is that you click a web link and automagically launch an
application (download it if not cached, or launch it from the Java
cache dir if ran previously).

FC

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