Java Web Start can make deploying Java apps a breeze, but it may prevent those apps from accessing needed resources. Find out how to use Java Network Launching Protocol and application signing to ...

Isn’t Java Web Start (JWS) supposed to allow web-based distribution of applications? So why would one want to distribute a Java Web Start (JWS) application via CD-ROM? Well, for a number of reasons.

Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com) kicked off a renewed push for Java as a Web client with the release this week of Java Web Start 1.0, software that automates the process of deploying and managing client ...

Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday at Internet World that it is shipping its Java Web Start software, which allows users to launch Java applications without worrying whether the Java platform is ...

This article originally appeared in Builder AU. Remote clients can access and run applications on their local machines by using the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP). JNLP applications are like ...