java web start and console apps
 

Hi
I want to use Java Web Start for a non gui client. The client will have
no windowing so it has to be console only. Has anyone been successful
in using JWS in non-gui environments? if not, can you recommend another
type of an autoupdate runtime environment that requires no GUI but can
be command line only?
Thanks
T.

Re: java web start and console apps
 

tom wrote:

> Hi
> I want to use Java Web Start for a non gui client. The client will have
> no windowing so it has to be console only. Has anyone been successful
> in using JWS in non-gui environments? if not, can you recommend another
> type of an autoupdate runtime environment that requires no GUI but can
> be command line only?
> Thanks
> T.
>
I have never tried that, but as far as I know Sun's JavaWebStart
requires a GUI environment.
So I think you'll have to look for an alternative JNLP implementation.
Look through <http://www.google.de/search?q=JNLP+%2Bimplementation>.
Promising candidates might be
"Jsh" <http://gerard.collin3.free.fr/documentation.html> and/or
"Java URL" <http://www.amherst.edu/~tliron/javaurl/>.

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Re: java web start and console apps
 

Thomas Fritsch wrote:
> So I think you'll have to look for an alternative JNLP implementation.
> Look through <http://www.google.de/search?q=JNLP+%2Bimplementation>.
> Promising candidates might be
> "Jsh" <http://gerard.collin3.free.fr/documentation.html> and/or
> "Java URL" <http://www.amherst.edu/~tliron/javaurl/>.
>

Maybe also

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openjnlp

(I have no experience with it).

/Thomas

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