JGridstart/Java Web Start Deployment

The introduction of Java Web Start has made deployment of Java applications a lot better. Now that a user can run a full application relatively easily from the web, there remains the issue of making sure that the user has installed a Java runtime environment. White this is covered by Sun, it is not yet a fully integrated smooth procedure for the end-user. Differences in browsers complicate the issue.

This page is an attempt to describe the behaviour of various major web browsers, so that a Java Web Start launcher infrastructure consisting of HTML and Javascript can be written that makes the user experience as smooth as possible.