[ale] How can I run *.jnlp (Java apps) from Firefox?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Fri Oct 27 16:21:42 EDT 2006


As far as I am aware, you only need to add the path to javaws to your $PATH.

export PATH=$PATH:`which javaws`

On 10/27/06, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> I have Firefox-1.5.0.7 on my SuSE-10.1 box and need to run Java apps from
> a server (as Windows uses 'javaws'). What should I install and how should
> I identify the app or plug-in with JNLP files? (The /etc/mime.types entry
> does exist.)
>
> TIA.
>  - Mills


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