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Java Web Start simplifies deployment of applications, but Sun's Plug-in makes the task even easier. See how the Java Plug-in from Sun enables browsers to fetch a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Java Web Start is an application-deployment technology that gives you the power to launch full-featured applications with a single click from your Web browser.

Sun patches Java Web Start vulnerability A flaw in the Java Web Start platform could be exploited to allow any Java applet to read, write and run on the affected machine.

Applications launched through Web Start will find that many methods that worked fine directly atop the Java virtual machine will fail with SecurityExceptions inside the Web Start imposed sandbox.

This article explains how to deploy a JRuby application with Java Web Start. From creating the code, signing the JARs, and setting up JRuby properties. As bonus: a look at JRuby 1.1's AOT feature.

Java Web Start technology overcomes this limitation while still retaining most of the advantages of the other technologies used hitherto to design Web clients. We looked at several examples ...

Isn’t Java Web Start (JWS) supposed to allow web-based distribution of applications? So why would one want to distribute a Java Web Start (JWS) application via CD-ROM? Well, for a number of reasons.

Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday at Internet World that it is shipping its Java Web Start software, which allows users to launch Java applications without worrying whether the Java platform is ...