[webstart] specs for webstart plugin

There is a ant task which packs a war archive for deployment of a webstart application. I makes use of pack200 and a servlet which supports version comparision as specified in the webstart specification.

The task is available at http://ant-jnlp-war.sourceforge.net/.

The jnlp download servlet is described here http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/javaws/developersguide/downloadservletguide.html.

I consider supporting pack200 a major goal because cat reduce update sizes by magnitudes.

I'll start adding unit tests under src/test/projects/ for the following cases in about 5 hours:
1. Happy path typical one-webstart app use. Creates both a webapp with a webstart app in it and a site report with the webstart links and dependencies in it.
2. Multi - app version of #1.
3. Bad pom with a jar artifact type instead of war type. Should fail with the message "The webstart plugin may only be used for webapp artifacts."
4. #3 with type ejb.
5. #3 with type ear.
6. #1 with every parameter filled out with custom values.
7. If we implement pack200 support as Philipp suggests a preliminary test case for that as well. Never used it before, so I could use some discussion around the parameters to support this.

I forgot to mention that I wrote the keytool keystore generation Mojo yesterday. I wonder if we should bind it to

webstart:gen-keystore

or

keystore:genkey

Any preference?

Kris, any news on your unit tests/test cases? I don't want to duplicate my work with something you may have done.

The license of the ant-jnlp-war code has to be clarified before it's used. I could not find any license information on the sf.net project site nor in the code itself.

Funny I couldn't see a license on sf.net page, I thought that every project had to specify the license from a list?

But according to http://ant.apache.org/external.html

the license is ASL 2.0. The information was added by bodewig. So I kind of trust that.
http://fisheye.cenqua.com/viewrep/ant/ant/xdocs/external.xml?r1=1.154&r2=1.155

Good enough for a start, but I'll sleep better if the developer would be so kind to include that information in at least the sf.net page but also in a LICENSE.txt file.

For information, I've moved the discussion on this plugin to http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MOJO/Webstart+Plugin

Note: there seems to be issues for some people to see this page when logged without proper credentials. Browsing in logged out mode seems to work though.

Hi there,
I'm the developer of the ant-jnlp-war poject - the licence is indeed ASF2.0, and all project o indeed have to choose a licence before sumitting an s poject. To be honest the plugin itself is more of a wrapper - there's only a couple of classes of original code. Feel free to use any of it you want though.
Nick

Nick: Could you please make this information a part of the http://ant-jnlp-war.sourceforge.net/ site? It's generally useful for all parties interrested in reusing your code.

Fowarded info.

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Subject: JNLP Plugin
From: "Emil A. Lefkof III" <elefkof@ksmpartners.com>
Date: Mon, October 24, 2005 10:02 am
To: m2@corridor-software.us
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Kris,

I don't know if you are looking at the JIRA issues under the JNLP plugin
for Maven 1.0 when building the 2.0 plugin but one of the critical ones I
put up there was the Manifest being over written when it JNLP's each
dependency. This screws up jars that have license info in their
manifest.

Thanks,

Emil

Forgot to announce something here. I committed a first revision of the webstart plugin in the sandbox under the webstart-maven-plugin directory. Feedback appreciated.
The confluence page currently serves as documentation and current status.

Merge with MOJO-7