Use Eclipse to run JNLP

[albert kao]

I can use Java web start to start my application on the command line.
How to run my application inside Eclipse 3.3.2?
Can I run my application inside Eclipse without Java web start? How?


Clicking the launch.jnlp file inside Eclipse only open the text editor.
javaws http://localhost:7001/webstart/myapp/launch.jnlp

launch.jnlp:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="$$codebase" href="$$name">

  <information>
    <title>${com.prod.my.myapp.common.client.title}</title>
    <vendor>I</vendor>
    <homepage href="http://devzone/english/dev%20template/html_templates/main.asp"/>
    <description>${com.prod.my.myapp.common.client.description}</description>
    <description kind="short">${com.prod.my.myapp.common.client.short_description}</description>
    <icon href="$$context/images/chflag.jpg"/>
  </information>

  <security>
      <all-permissions/>
  </security>

  <resources>

  <java version="1.6.0_05" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" max-heap-size="256m"/>

    <!-- myapp Application -->
    <jar href="myprod.myapp.client.jar"/>
    <jar href="myprod.reports.jar"/>

    <!-- TR Client jar -->
    <jar href="extern.ejb-client.jar"/>

    <property name="java.naming.factory.initial" value="weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory"/>
    <property name="java.naming.provider.url" value="${com.prod.my.myapp.common.client.naming_provider}"/>
    <property name="weblogic.jndi.enableServerAffinity" value="true" />

  </resources>

  <application-desc main-class="com.prod.my.myapp.common.framework.applicationmainwindow.gui.myappApplication"/>

</jnlp>

[sourabh girdhar]

You can run your application in eclipse as normal java application. Create a project with all depnedencies and then you can use simply use ANT to target main class and invoke it with all other arguments and ussual settings.

This is all assuming that you have complete code on your machine. If you are trying to setup, some third party app, then getting all jars together with appropriate name could be issue as Java ws uses internal caching in your temp folder with strange naming conventions.

If you want to start webstart in eclipse by clicking jnlp file , you can setup preferences in eclipse to open .jnlp file with external tool "javaws".

[prem pillai]

Why do you want to run your webstart application in eclipse ?