Modifying remote webstart launch file locally

It seems that it’s possible to save remote webstart file locally. And while still using remotely distributed jar files for the webstart, modify at least few webstart parameters in locally saved jnlp -file. However, this trick seems to work only with JDK5 version of webstart, not the one in JDK6. JDK6 seems to dutifully retrieve…

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JDK 6…, improvement over JDK 5…, not

For example, following issues seem to be persistently existing: Bug ID: 6566201 JNLP ClassLoader performance degraded in 1.6 significantly for the signed(?) jar Bug ID: 6532373 xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion ’c->xlib.lock’ failed. First issue means huge slow down in webstart application startup. When doing some profiling in webstart started application, it’s consuming huge amount of memory…

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