[Bug 84501] Re: Java6 Web Start just opens the Java control panel instead of running the application

[Ilmari Vacklin]

Example URL: http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/jws/argouml-0.22.jnlp

To reproduce the bug: open the above URL in Epiphany.

This is a so called Java Web Start file, which uses the web start
feature in Java to download the actual .jar file and then run it using
the system Java. It doesn't directly have anything to do with the
browser, besides the browser downloading the file and handing it to
Java. This needs to happen properly, of course. Feisty's Epiphany seems
to be not doing its thing properly here, with Java 6. Again, this might
be a Java bug, I'm not familiar enough with Java to say, but the fact
that it works in Firefox is probably a lead. (Does Firefox use the
system MIME configuratoin?)

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Java6 Web Start just opens the Java control panel instead of running the application
https://launchpad.net/bugs/84501