Question

So I have a jar file created by Netbeans.

I would like to deploy it as a web start application but don’t know how to procede.

Answer 1

If it’s a application project in NetBeans, you can right-click on the project and choose “Build JNLP”, and then you get a war-file you can deploy in an application server.

If not, you can create your own JNLP-file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://something.com/foobar" href="foobar.jnlp">

<information>
    <title>Foo Bar</title>
    <description>hello</description>
</information>

<security>
    <all-permissions/>
</security>

<resources>
    <j2se href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" version="1.6+"/>
    <jar href="foobar.jar" />
</resources>

<application-desc main-class="foo.bar.MainClass" />

and deploy the JNLP and the (signed) jar-file.