Restrict Java Web Start to only use Java 5
We are currently using jws to download our rich client applications that have been built on top of Java 5. We have found that if a user has Java 6 installed on their pc jws uses that version instead of our preferred version and unfortunately this causes the application to fail.
In our JNLP file we have specified the j2se property as version="1.5+". I was hoping that this would mean only sub versions of 5 can be used, unfortunately not. The only way we get our apps to work is to go into the javaws console on each client and disable the jre (version 6) in the Java Application Runtime Settings section of the javaws control panel.
Any ideas or suggestions on ways to ensure that only Java 5 is used by JavaWS? Is there a way to tell javaws to only use the jre that was used to start javaws for its applications?
Thanks.
