Re: [Java-gnome-developer] GNOME Web Start

[Benjamin J. <bp...@gm...>]

> Yes. Java web start is awesome. Making a similar thing possible with
> Gnome/GTK would be awesome. However, I have gone down this path before.
> 
> GTK/Gnome are native libs. This means, for the JWS program to run, it
> cannot do so in a sandbox. The user gets an ugly message telling them
> not to do it.
> 
> GTK/Gnome do not use Java class loader to load their resouses: such as
> icons, themes, .gtkrc files, and the like. There isn't a good way to do
> this with JWS. Gtk/Gnome would have to be able to load their resources
> out of a Classloader. Perhaps adding a callback to GTK's file operations
> that lets you plug in arbitrary ways to retrieve a byte[] or something.
> 
> Both of the above cases could more properly be solved in the same way
> Swing/AWTs are. When a Swing program is downloaded from JWS, it does not
> download the entirety of the Swing and AWT libraries: they are located
> on the local machine. AWT uses JNI (or something) to interface with the
> native machine to do it's graphic rendering... and JWS doesn't give you
> a warning about this (just like an applet). Basically somebody has
> configured a security manager of some sort to trust Swing/AWT. So,
> Java-Gnome is installed locally and given permission to do what it
> needs. Obviously this makes one click deployment not quite work...
> except that your Linux distribution SHOULD distribute Java-Gnome by
> default!!!
> 
> 
> 
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