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

[John Mills]

ALErs -

Thanks for the help. For some reason the OpenSuSE-10.1 I installed doesn't 
seem to have javaws, though it has other java componenets. I'll complete 
the package and file a report.

I expect the $PATH issue is important because I can't see the non-$PATH
[incl. java] directories when I try to add apps for web-page extensions
from Firefox.

 - Mills 

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, James Sumners wrote:

> You can do this -- http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Mozilla#Java_webstart .
> 
> But I distinctly remember only adding javaws to my path the last time
> I needed to run a java applet that depended on it. I figure the java
> plugin looks for it in the path and fails to run a javaws applet if it
> cannot find javaws in the path. If Firefox tries to download the file
> and you tell it to execute the file with javaws you are essentially
> adding javaws to your path for Firefox only.
> 
> On 10/27/06, David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 27 October 2006 16:21, James Sumners wrote:
> > > As far as I am aware, you only need to add the path to javaws to your
> > > $PATH.