Is it a bug of Java Web Start?

I hava a Java application which is deployed by JavaWS. And a shared objected is deployed as a native library of the application. (Following is a piece of the JNLP file.)

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<resources>
<j2se version="1.4+" java-vm-args="-client"/>
<jar href="/foo.jar" main="true" download="eager"/>
<nativelib href="/libfoo.jar"/>
</resources>

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Theoretically, when the application launches, all jar files have been loaded on users' system. And the application should work, even if the network cable is plugged out.

When I tested the application with JRE 1.4.2 and 1.5, it actually worked after launching without network access.

However, when I tried it with JRE 1.6, the application fails. It seems that the application cannot load the shared object.

I am sure that I run the application with JRE1.4.2, 1.5 and 1.6 on the same machine. Each time before I tested it, the Java cache (/.java directory) is cleaned. So I can say that the shared library did not exist on the box for testing 1.4.2 and 1.5.

Is it a bug of JavaWS?

Posted at 03:07PM Dec 04, 2007 by Ye Julia Li in Java  |  Comments[0]