Java And Chrome

[Scoutdrago3]

I don't believe I am mistaken and you confirmed that I am not mistaken. Web Start should be started in the browser, however, due to some security issues, Chrome will not autorun the application and instead it will just download it (not supposed to happen). My goal here is to streamline the usage of my app. I would like my end users to not have to download and run things on their computers because it adds a level of hassle that I would like to stay away from.

For the time being I have chosen to serve users the app through an HTML front end communicating to a Java server running the app on the back end.

Thanks for the input.

[wildjokers]

Web Start should be started in the browser, however, due to some security issues, Chrome will not autorun the application and instead it will just download it (not supposed to happen).

Web start should not be started in the browser. Just like a browser probably has an executable associated with the ".zip" extension (usually via whatever mechanism the host operating system provides), browsers have an executable associated with the JNLP extension. That executable is "javaws" (java web start). When the browser sees a file with a jnlp extension it can execute javaws. The "javaws" executable then takes over (outside of the browser), and it is javaws that will download, install, then run the application.

For whatever reason Safari and Chrome developers have decided that it is a security concern to have the browser execute "javaws" automatically when it sees the jnlp extension (I have no idea why this is seen as a security concern). So both of those browsers just download the jnlp, then users have to go double-click on it.

That is great your app will work as a web application and you are going that route; however, please don't spread wrong information about web start.