Re: [Openjnlp-devel] New OpenJNLP User / Some Patches

[Kevin H. <ke...@na...>]

On Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002, at 06:23 US/Central, Nathan Meyers wrote:
[...]
> My environment exposed some OpenJNLP bugs - I've attached some patches
> to address them. Here's a brief explanation of the problems and 
> patches:

Thanks for the patches. (After too long of an absence from working on 
OpenJNLP) I was about to start work on a minor point release to fix a 
couple of bugs. I'll look at incorporating your patches.

[...]
> There's one more change I'd like to make. I might not get to it very
> quickly, but here's the remaining problem I'd like to fix: the library
> should *not* apply the same caching logic to .jnlp files that it 
> applies
> to resources specified in the .jnlp files; it should just fetch the URL
> once and then use it. As is, it's issuing something like four queries
> (GET and HEAD) against the same URL - in my case causing the server to
> perform a lot of wasted work. If/when I'm able to fix this one, I'll
[...]

Have you tried this with Java Web Start? It behaves in pretty much the 
same fashion. The real answer, I believe, is to improve the 
implementation of caching. I have been planning to look at implementing 
"If-Modified-Since" logic so only a single request to the server needs 
to be made.