Oxygen provides
the tools to create your own JWS distribution that can be installed on a custom web server.
Advantages of a JWS distribution include:
- Oxygen is
run locally, not inside a web browser, overcoming many of the browser compatibility
problems common to applets;
-
JWS ensures that the most current version of the application will be deployed, as
well as the correct version of JRE;
-
applications launched with Java Web Start are cached locally. Thus, an already
downloaded application is launched on par with a traditionally installed
application;
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you can preconfigure Oxygen and the
rest of your team will use the same preferences and frameworks.
Note: A code signing certificate is needed to sign the JWS distribution. The following
procedure assumes that you already have such a certificate (for example Thawte™, or Verisign™, just to name a few).
The following schematics depicts the
Oxygen Java Web
Start deployment procedure:
Java Web Start Deployment Procedure
The following steps describe the procedure of deploying a Oxygen installation
on a custom server.