Using Java Web Start, it’s possible to design desktop Web clients that provide a rich user experience decoupled from a browser. In this article, I will primarily look at Java Web Start.

Isn’t Java Web Start (JWS) supposed to allow web-based distribution of applications? So why would one want to distribute a Java Web Start (JWS) application via CD-ROM? Well, for a number of reasons.

The default-java folder is a symbolic link to the actual location of the JDK install on Ubuntu. When you reference the JDK install location in applications or in environment variables such as ...