Comments on: Guide: How to use Pack200 for your Java Web Start applications on Apache Web Server

by: vikas dhaker

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:51:24 +0000

How can i achieve the same with the Jboss app server which user tomcat as web server. I am desoerately looking for replies

by: Chris

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:45:04 +0000

The configuration above seems to only work for me if I actually call the file.jar.var name specifically then it will negotiate which file to grab depending on what content-encoding I specify.

For anyone wondering on a linux command line you can do this…

curl -O http://webserver/file.jar.var –header “content-type: application/x-java-archive” –header “accept-encoding: pack200-gzip,gzip”

If you leave out the second header you will get the unpacked version.

Any ideas, anyone?

by: Keith Lea

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:18 +0000

John, I haven’t tried it with applets, but I think it would work just the same.

by: John

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:04:13 +0000

Hi,
Is this valid for applet´s too ?

Thanks

by: Keith Lea

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:36:42 +0000

jcorreia, I used a tool like ethereal to packet log, to be sure.

by: jcorreia

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:32:17 +0000

Thanks, I think it worked great..
Great work.
But how can we be sure that it is calling indeed the compressed jar ?

by: Keith Lea

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:34:59 +0000

Graham, I did that to keep things clean.

by: Graham Lea

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:52:35 +0000

Hi Keith,

Is it a requirement that the packed and unpacked JARs be in separate directories, or is that just something you did to “tidy up”?

Thanks,

Graham.

by: Keith

Sat, 28 May 2005 14:43:30 +0000

No, the point of this is to avoid the servlet. However, I think the servlet supports JAR versioning, whereas this apache approach does not.

by: Erik Vickroy

Fri, 27 May 2005 22:36:37 +0000

Thanks for the information. This is very helpful.
One question, though, does this require the JnlpDownloadServlet to be deployed, or is it not required?

Thanks.