Re: Does launching an applet via JNLP work on Linux at all?

From:

Andrew Thompson <andrewthommo@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:12:56 -0800 (PST)

Message-ID:

<dbad71cd-6974-4cef-8a94-ecc006ec43cc@u15g2000prd.googlegroups.com>

Based on the advice of Lew and Thomas, I tried again
to get JNLP applets working in my Ubuntu box.

Since I was doing this, I decided to install Google
Chrome before I did anything.

Then I visited www.java.com (I'm really only interested
in getting it to work in the JRE, since you can *develop*
JNLP embedded applets in any recent version of the JDK),
got totally confused about which exact installer to download,
and ended up getting 3.

Had no luck using Sun's instructions to install them,
geting errors in the console.
<output>
Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no]
yes
Unpacking...
Checksumming...
Extracting...
../install.sfx.5948: 1: =7FELF=02=01=01=02: not found
../install.sfx.5948: 2: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

Done.
</output>

Then decided to just point Chrome at my existing
JNLP based applet* (which I had not previously been
able to test, in its embedded form), and found it
worked in Chrome! I went as far as checking that
I could open images using the (JNLP API)
FileOpenService.

* Chase the link from
<http://pscode.org/gifanim/#applet>

So, to answer your original question.
*YES* It does work 'at all'.

It still fails in FF, but I think that is
hangover problems from before, and to be honest,
I am not that motivated to try and track down
what its problems are. I suspect if I downloaded
and installed FF at this instant, it would work.

--
Andrew T.
pscode.org