John,
I stoked that you're changing this, but I think there may some issues. I tried
the file as listed here:
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/tds4.2/reference/Viewers.html#embedding
And I got:
com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/current/webstart/netcdfToolsExtraJars.jnlp
at
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(DownloadEngine.java:1416)
at
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1569)
at
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1547)
at
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1654)
at
com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCachedFile(DownloadEngine.java:661)
at
com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadExtensionsHelper(LaunchDownload.java:711)
at
com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadExtensions(LaunchDownload.java:654)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Launcher.java:702)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareAllResources(Launcher.java:592)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:335)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:207)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:124)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Main.java:451)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:283)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:116)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Here's my JNLP:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<jnlp spec="1.0+"
codebase="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/current/webstart";>
<information>
<title>NetCDF Tools UI</title>
<vendor>Unidata</vendor>
<homepage href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/"/>
<description kind="short">GUI interface to netCDF-Java / Common Data
Model</description>
<icon href="nc.gif"/>
<offline-allowed/>
</information>
<security>
<all-permissions/>
</security>
<resources>
<j2se version="1.6+" max-heap-size="1024m"/>
<jar href="netcdfUI.jar"/>
<extension name="netcdfUI Extra" href="netcdfToolsExtraJars.jnlp"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="ucar.nc2.ui.ToolsUI">
<argument>{catalogURL}#{datasetID}</argument>
</application-desc>
</jnlp>
Nathan
On Apr 15, 2012, at 4:58 PM, John Caron wrote:
> Hi Nathan:
>
> We have changed the way applications like Hyrax can call the ToolsUI webstart
> application, in order to insulate from changes in the webstart jnlp file.
>
> We are using IDV style JNLP files, and using a "current" directory that we
> can switch when needed without breaking other applications.
>
> Details are here:
>
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/tds4.2/reference/Viewers.html#embedding
>
> This can be used now, let me know if you see any problems.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion!
>
> John.
>
>
> On 3/15/2012 1:04 PM, Nathan Potter wrote:
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> I have some questions regarding the way that IDV and ToolsUI are deployed
>> via webstart. I have been caching the prototype .jnlp files in my
>> distribution and modifying the arguments as needed on a per request basis.
>> This implementation lacks flexibility when the application host site
>> upgrades to a newer version (and removes the older one). I see that on
>> motherlode the IDV jnlp bundle now references a "current" version of the
>> codebase (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/current/webstart) and
>> that the resources (jar files) are loaded based on content held at the
>> application site:
>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/current/webstart/IDV/idvbase.jnlp
>>
>> This seem like a much more flexible plan. Is it something that will also be
>> done for NetCDF-ToolsUI?
>>
>> Alternatively, someone pointed me at the way that AutoPlot handles it's jnlp
>> generation. They host the application files and a cgi that you pass the
>> arguments to as part of the query string, it hands back a JNLP with the
>> arguments filled out and pointing to their most recent version of the
>> AutoPlot application.
>>
>> http://autoplot.org/jnlp.cgi?uri=http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/sp_phys/data/fast/acf/1998/fa_k0_acf_19980102_v01.cdf
>>
>> Any thoughts about this?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>>
>>
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