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Re: Java Webstart network bandwidth

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Java Webstart network bandwidth
Date	2011-09-20 15:07 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:07:08 -0700 (PDT), Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>AIUI, Java WebStart is nothing but a delivery mechanism for an application =
>to reach the client machine.  So another name for a "Java WebStart applicat=
>ion" is a "Java application".  Look to your application for bad network hab=
>its.

not quite. Java Web Start itself has some caching habits ,where it
downloads the *.jnlp file and possibly some jars that you want to be
aware of.

The Java Web Start App itself is often absolutely identical to the
standalone version.  

Run the app standalone to prove to yourself the JWSness is irrelevant.

-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
It is a lot easier to combine things later that 
have been too finely categorised than to split 
things later whose are categories are too coarse.

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Java Webstart network bandwidth bcr666 <bcr666@gmail.com> - 2011-09-19 14:00 -0700
  Re: Java Webstart network bandwidth Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-19 17:03 -0700
  Re: Java Webstart network bandwidth Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-19 19:07 -0700
    Re: Java Webstart network bandwidth Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-20 15:07 -0700

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