Dynamic JNLP

[Steve Wood]

Hi Guys,

I realise this is a repeat question to a recent post, but I'm using the correct name convention

How do you dynamically create a JNLP file? I want to pass a couple of parameters into the JAR on load, but they depend on the user so can't be hardcoded on the JNLP page.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I need a bit of hand-holding through this as I write everything in JSP.

Cheers,

Steve

[Catalin Merfu]

Create the JNLP content in a JSP file. In your html file set the link
to the JSP instead of the static jnlp file.

Don't forget to set the correct myme type for JNLP.

[Steve Wood]

I've tried doing that and it seems to work - though my security permissions don't seem to be coming through.

The only problem is that it doesn't automatically start web start (using Windows XP) and I have to map the .jsp file to start javaws - it's not a huge deal, but is a bit of a pain in the butt - especially for non-techies.

Any help with this is much appreciated.

Cheers,

Steve

[Mark Sintrel]

You'll need to change the mime type of your script so that JWS knows it's a file it should handle.

This can be done pretty easily by modifying the headers in your jsp file to say that it's an jnlp file .. I don't have the jsp code for this, but here's the php code - and it should be pretty similar:

Header ("Content-Type: application/x-java-jnlp-file");

- Mark