Deploying Java Web Start Applications on the JBoss Application S...
3星 · 超过75%的资源 需积分: 10 190 浏览量
2008-02-03
20:29:34
上传
评论
收藏 108KB PDF 举报 
Deploying Java Web Start Applications on the JBoss Application Server
By Olexiy & Alexander Prokhorenko
April 22, 2004
This article will describe the deployment process and the subsequent automatic
update of the client's GUI with the help of the Java Web Start technology in a
Windows environment. At present, Java Web Start may be used in Windows, Linux,
Unix (Solaris), and not so long ago in Macintosh OS X. As for applications
deployment, HTTP protocol is used; this makes it possible to use any of the many
HTTP servers. To use all the possibilities that the Java Web Start technology
provides, such as "versioning" of Java applications and "incremental updates," it's
necessary to a Web server that supports Servlets or CGI scripts. We will use an
application server; in our case it is JBoss 3.2.3. Included in its package is the Web
container called Apache Tomcat. We will describe what is necessary to be done to
configure JNPL protocol support.
We hope that our readers has certain practical Java development experience, and at
least little knowledge and imagination of the JBoss application server, or at least of
Apache Tomcat.
One should point out that the given article is not considered to be a full manual for
Java Web Start. To get the full official information, go to the Sun Microsystems site:
http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/
.
Introduction to Java Web Start
We will start with, a general description on Java Web Start. It's a small, free of
charge, widely used program for clients' PCs associated with a Web browser. Java
Web Start is included in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) as part of J2SE 1.4.2.
It can be downloaded at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
. When a
user clicks a link in the browser, pointing to a special JNLP (Java Network Launching
Protocol) executing file with a Java application, it launches Java Web Start, which in
turn automatically downloads application files from Web server; the user caches
some of them and launches the described Java application. Java Web Start is given
in a standard package, either in JRE 1.4 or in JDK 1.4. It's worth pointing out that
Java Web Start is also allows you to easily solve the question of installation of Java
application (as well as Java Applets), and its subsequent "automatic" update on any
PC.
After an individual configuring of Java Web Start on the client's PC itself and the
installation of your Java application, all the necessary files for working with JAR
libraries will be cached on the user's PC. All the next application's update (during
资源评论
dengguochen20032013-05-08JNLP可以直接发布到TOMCAT里，不知道JBOSS下面怎样发布？这个材料有点老，现在都是JBOSS7了，不过可以参考一下。
