Web Start and readonly data from the server or the cache

[jeff h. silverman]

Hi. I am writing my first javaws application. This application must
upload about a megabyte of readonly data. In the application, I have this
nailed, but in javaws, it is looking for the file on the local machine.
It ought to be looking in the upload.

This file is not really a property file, since it is comma separated
variables. But I really want to include it in the upload, so that the
application will work even if the network is down.


How do I do this? And how do I do it such that if I want to run the
program as a regular java application, it will switch back to the current
technique?


Many thanks,


Jeff


Jeff Silverman,
Senior Computing Specialist 3, Fire and Environmental Research Applications (FERA) team.
jeffsilv at u dot washington anotherdot edu (206) 732-7815
http://duet.cfr.washington.edu/~jeffs

 

[Roedy Green]

In the application, I have this
nailed, but in javaws, it is looking for the file on the local machine.
It ought to be looking in the upload.

You can unpack the jar in your installer class, or you get at the
member as a resource or with a URL. See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/image.html for some examples.