JNLP

One of the little issues with RobC is that I'm using Java 5.0. Unfortunately, I haven't handled it the best from within the application. Even after fixing it, I still don't, but at least I pop up an error message instead of never showing up on the desktop.

One way to deal with it is to use JNLP and launch from the web. Once launched, a person can launch the application at any time from the launch manager, a short cut, or from the website. Not a bad solution. It even detects which version of the JVM is in place.

What really stinks is that the error messages while putting the jnlp description file really really suck. Who'd've thunk that "href" is telling me that there is a jar tag that requires an href attribute. Maybe if the would speak in English and tell me?? That'd be nice.

Now I'm finding out that Charter apparantly doesn't recognize the JNLP file and doesn't deliver it with the appropriate MIME type. Can't set the .htaccess file nor a PHP script nor a SHTML file.

Anyone with ideas? I'm going to see if I can get tech support to fix it. But first I gotta find tech support. :-/