Thanks for the info..But I require a little more help
my .jnlp file is as shown
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jnlp codebase="http://192.168.1.2:8081/retirement/" href="launch.jnlp" spec="1.0+">
<information>
<title>Basic Application Example</title>
<vendor>Sun Microsystems Inc.</vendor>
<homepage href="http://appframework.dev.java.net"/>
<description>A simple
java desktop application based on Swing Application Framework</description>
<description kind="short">Basic Application Example</description>
<offline-allowed/>
<shortcut online="true">
<desktop/>
<menu submenu="retire"/>
</shortcut>
</information>
<resources>
<j2se version="1.5+"/>
<jar eager="true" href="RetirementPlanningApp.jar" main="true"/>
<jar href="lib/appframework-1.0.3.jar"/>
<jar href="lib/swing-worker-1.1.jar"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="retirementplanningapp.RetirementPlanningApp">
</application-desc>
</jnlp>
But still desktop icon or menu items are not created..Please help