Re: WebStart application with JavaHelp

From:
Andrew Thompson <andrewthommo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:34:46 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<23484ab3-d0f5-4954-adc3-44ee6a0eabf2@f20g2000prn.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 6, 12:54 pm, markspace <nos...@nowhere.com> wrote:

Andrew Thompson wrote:

On Nov 6, 3:13 am, markspace <nos...@nowhere.com> wrote:

Luc Van Bogaert wrote:
..
Just put your jh.jar file in

<resource>
   <jar href="jh.jar" />
</resource>


That is one way to do it. JH can also be delivered
as webtart extensions. ...


Hmm, the OP has a Jar file, and that's what the <jar> element wants.
Whereas the <extension> tag takes a JNLP file.

Is there any advantage to using the <extension> that would warrant the
extra work of converting the existing jh.jar to use JNLP also? I'm not
really used to using JNLP files, so I don't know what kinds of
trade-offs exist.


Factoring out Jar(s) from commonly used extensions
can have some advantages, especially where there
is more then one Jar.

- It means the extension can be used in multiple
JNLP files with just a single line for each (main)
JNLP.
- Extensions can have their own icons and license
(etc.)
- Each JNLP can have different levels of trust.
- Code in different extensions can have different
code signers. This is important if the binary is
supplied already signed, and the license dictates
that the Jar must be distributed 'unaltered'.

--
Andrew T.
pscode.org

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