Java Web Start For Mac

  1. OpenWebStart is available for macOS, Windows and Linux. The recommended minimum system requirements of OpenWebStart itself are: 2 GHz dual core processor. 1 GB RAM (system memory) 200 MB of hard-drive space (for the OpenWebStart core installation) In addition to that, memory and hard-drive space consumption are mainly influenced by the number of JVMs downloaded and the JNLP applications installed and cached on your system.
  2. Java Web Start differs from Java Applets by running java independently of the browser. When you start the application from the browser it downloads a file called frmsrvlet.jnlp to the default download directory setup for the browser. It will then run Java directly from this file rather than through the browser.

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If, after installing Java for OS X 2014-001 and the latest version of Java 7 from Oracle, you want to disable Java 7 and re-enable the Apple-provided Java SE 6 web plug-in and Web Start functionality, follow these steps.

Despite its pretty face, Mac OS X is built on top of BSD UNIX and comes complete with J2SE and Java Web Start installed. Developers can pop open a Terminal window and find that their favorite geek tools like vi, emacs, and the Java command line tools are already installed. Check a checkbox and you've enabled the built in Apache server. To run Java Web Start-based application after the release of Java 11, the company Karakun AG has released the open source tool OpenWebStart, based on IcedTea-Web. The tool includes all the functionality of IcedTea-Web and adds extended features, such as native installers for Mac OS, Windows, and Linux.

Note: You must be logged in as an administrator. If prompted for your administrator password after a command, enter it and then press the Return or Enter key.

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  1. Open Terminal, located in the Utilities folder.
  2. Enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
  3. Enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
  4. Enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
  5. To re-enable Java SE 6 Web Start, enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:

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The following steps will undo the above commands and restore Java 7 in OS X Lion and later.

  1. Disable Java SE 6 Web Start opening:
    • Enter this command, then press the Return or Enter key:
    • When prompted, enter your administrator password, then press the Return or Enter key.
  2. Re-enable the Java 7 applet plug-in bydownloading and reinstalling the latest version of Oracle Java 7 JRE.

The most recent Java auto-update through OS X (Leopard) is causing some problems with Java Web Start, the program used to launch the MDO Transporter program. If you’ve gone through the update and your Java Web Start is no longer available it means that the update wasn’t completely successful.

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A symptom of this is trying to launch a Java Web Start Application (Transporter for My Docs users) and having it open something that looks like a text file.

Fortunately there is a fairly simple solution to the problem. You can manually re-install the Java Update from this Apple location.
Let us know through the comments here if this doesn’t work for you.