A mechanism for delivering full-blown Java applications from a Web server. The programs are initially downloaded using the browser but are run outside of the browser. Contrast with Java applets ...

If Java Web Start is correctly installed, the Web server configured for the .JNLP extension, and the application appropriately provisioned as indicated above, a splash screen should appear ...

Java Web Start can make deploying Java apps a breeze, but it may prevent those apps from accessing needed resources. Find out how to use Java Network Launching Protocol and application signing to ...

Java Web Start allows Java applications to be launched via a link to a JNLP file. The JNLP file describes the main method or entry point into the application and it references the resources used ...

Java Web Start simplifies deployment of applications, but Sun's Plug-in makes the task even easier. See how the Java Plug-in from Sun enables browsers to fetch a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate ...

Now, support will also be removed for them in Java SE 8. Finally, it has announced that Java Web Start will not be included in Java 11 or future versions.

Come September 2016, the perennial threat vector otherwise known as the Java plugin will be deprecated and well on its way to being dead, decreased, and thankfully, an ex-plugin.

A flaw in the Java Web Start platform could be exploited to allow any Java applet to read, write and run on the affected machine. The flaw is in the way Java applications are handled in the ...

The vulnerability "can be exploited only through sandboxed Java Web Start applications and sandboxed Java applets," according to Oracle's Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory in June.