JNLP Web Space?

> Does anyone know of a site that will host the JNLP

> XML files required to allow for me to publish a Java

> Web Start Swing app?

> I have been using www.geocities.com, but cant seem to

> get it to work.

About all a server needs to do to be able to

serve web start projects is to serve resources

and give the correct content-type for JNLP files.

Geocities does both those things correctly.

The tricky one is the second, but see here..

http://www.google.com/search?q=+site%3Ageocities.com+filetype%3Ajnlp

This search for JNLP files at Geocities shows 9 hits..

I checked the first two** at Mindprod's mime check applet***..

**

http://www.geocities.com/barrybecker4/games/maze_en.jnlp

http://www.geocities.com/jphotobrushpro/JPhotoBrushProEval.jnlp

***

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/mime.html

And both JNLP files correctly showed content type as..

'application/x-java-jnlp-file'.

Using that reasoning, I suspect ..

1) Web start works just fine from Geocities

2) This web start application is broken

The best strategy for fixing the broken web

start application might be to give us the URL

of the JNLP file at Geocities (so that we can

determine what the actual problem is).

> PS: Please send me mail at todd_musheno@yahoo.com as

> well as here.

The very moment you hire me as a consultant.

Otherwise it is in public, on the fourm.

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AndrewThompson64

AndrewThompson64a at 2007-7-12 17:17:14 >

I was not convinced until I'd tried your suggestion,

as well as a slight variant. Both failed.

It must be that JNLP's are not allowed on the free

Geocities sites. Pity.

In any case, I did a little searching for 'free hosting'

and signed up with the first one I saw..

http://www.freewebs.com/

Not only was I able to upload a JNLP successfully,

http://www.freewebs.com/andrewthommo/player.jnlp

..but FreeWebs also serve the correct content-type

for JNLP files (bless their souls!). Check it here..

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/mime.html

So.. my suggestion is 'try FreeWebs, and if that

fails for you, move on the the next one..'

HTH

AndrewThompson64a at 2007-7-12 17:17:14 >

You are welcome.

Hope the deployment goes smoothly, I would be

interested in hearing any problems you encounter.

(I have a vested interest in knowing about places

that can host JNLP for free.There are a lot of Java

developers that might be interested in trying JWS -

that do not have their own servers - and do not want

to pay for one, just to take web start for a 'test drive'.)

AndrewThompson64a at 2007-7-12 17:17:14 >