Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JNLP Problems: FileOpenService uninitialized Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:17:56 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 22:18:00 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="BSKXKq4dV+7jFlM4JDctyw"; logging-data="28205"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ow8FmHfsDoNchM0pYh0BzHdt9ZgtwiwA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20111110 Icedove/3.0.11 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:PSqSahZyFZ+5cGyAzJlEOu4xLe4= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:11701 On 02/01/2012 01:19 PM, Novice wrote: > Jeff Higgins wrote in news:jg18qc$ht7$1@dont- > email.me: > >> On 01/28/2012 10:03 AM, Novice wrote: >> >>> I really appreciate your help with this Jeff. You must be better at >>> googling than I am ;-) >> >> That a web search is cheap and easy is the whole point of most of my >> posts.:) >> ... >>> I downloaded WS4E from Sourceforge easily enough and unzipped it into a >>> directory. But that's where I'm stuck. >> >> I extracted the zip such that my >> {eclipse-home}/plugins/net.sourceforge.webstart_1.2.1 >> >> {eclipse-home}/dropins/net.sourceforge.webstart_1.2.1 would probably >> work just as well - and is now recommended. >> >> Restart Eclipse. >> Now when I go to File>Export>Other I see Webstart. >> >> > > Sorry for the delay in getting back to you; I've been fighting other fires. > ;-) > > Your last line was the key: I hadn't seen anything in the documentation > about how to actually FIND Webstart when it is actually installed. It turns > out that whatever I did worked just fine; I simply went to > File/Export/Other and Webstart was right there. > > The only documentation I could find said how you'd find it in NetBeans, > which I'm not using. > > With a bit of luck, the Webstart documentation will tell me the rest of > what I need to know to work with this tool. Did you read the tutorial? > > Ironically, I posted to Oracle's JNLP forum several days ago about my > "uninitialized" problem and finally got a reply yesterday. The responder > basically said you can't test your Java Web Start stuff in Eclipse! > Apparently, he didn't know about the Webstart plugin.... > I don't know that you can. I've not tried the tool.