Sweet! That works for me!
Thanks John, that's a recurring annoyance handily eliminated.
Nathan
On Apr 18, 2012, at 5:21 PM, John Caron wrote:
> ok, i finally reproduced that error and seemed to have fixed it. can you try
> again?
>
> On 4/15/2012 7:04 PM, Nathan Potter wrote:
>>
>> John,
>>
>> I made that change and now I get this error:
>>
>> The following required field is missing from the launch file:
>> <jnlp><(<application-dec>|<applet-desc>|<installer-desc>|<component-desc>
>>
>> And the it lists this file under a tab titled "Launch File":
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>> <jnlp spec="1.0+"
>> codebase="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/v4.2/webstart";>
>> <information>
>> <title>NetCDF Tools UI 4.2 extra Jars</title>
>> <vendor>Unidata</vendor>
>> <offline-allowed/>
>> </information>
>>
>> <security>
>> <all-permissions/>
>> </security>
>>
>> <resources>
>> <jar href="bdb.jar"/>
>> <jar href="bounce.jar"/>
>> <jar href="bufr.jar"/>
>> <jar href="codec.jar"/>
>> <jar href="ehcache.jar"/>
>> <jar href="grib.jar"/>
>> <jar href="httpclient.jar"/>
>> <jar href="httplogging.jar"/>
>> <jar href="jdom.jar"/>
>> <jar href="jgoodies.jar"/>
>> <jar href="loggingAPI.jar"/>
>> <jar href="logging.jar"/>
>> <jar href="opendap.jar"/>
>> <jar href="protobuf.jar"/>
>> <jar href="quartz.jar"/>
>> <jar href="resourcesOptional.jar"/>
>> <jar href="spring.jar"/>
>> <jar href="visadNoDods.jar"/>
>> </resources>
>>
>> </jnlp>
>>
>> There is another tab with the "Main Launch File" and the "Exception" tab
>> says:
>>
>> MissingFieldException[ The following required field is missing from the
>> launch
>> file:<jnlp>(<application-desc>|<applet-desc>|<installer-desc>|<component-desc>)]
>> at com.sun.javaws.jnl.XMLFormat.parse(XMLFormat.java:167)
>> at
>> com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(LaunchDescFactory.java:84)
>> at
>> com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(LaunchDescFactory.java:102)
>> at
>> com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadExtensionsHelper(LaunchDownload.java:724)
>> 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)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>>
>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 5:14 PM, John Caron wrote:
>>
>>> apologies:
>>>
>>> use netCDFtoolsExtraJars.jnlp
>>>
>>> i will correct docs
>>>
>>> On 4/15/2012 6:10 PM, Nathan Potter wrote:
>>>> 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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>>>>>>
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