Java Web Start: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:12, 7 December 2008

Revision as of 19:17, 22 December 2008

Line 6:

Web Start provides a series of classes in the <code>[http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/docs/javadoc/index.html javax.jnlp]</code> [[Java package|package]] which provide various services to the application. Sun designed most of these services with the aim of allowing carefully controlled access to resources (such as files and the system clipboard) while restricting the application to authorized operations.

Sun introduced version 1.0 of Web Start in March 2001.<ref>[http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-03/sunflash.20010314.1.html Java Web Start 1.0 press release]</ref> Since [[Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition|J2SE]] version 1.4 Web Start comes as a default part of [[Java Runtime Environment]] (JRE) and computer administrators no longer have to install it separately.

Java Web Start resembles [[ClickOnce]] in the [[.NET Framework|.NET]] framework.