java-web-start

Java Web Start support in Java 9 and beyond

According to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/9-deprecated-features-3745636.html Java Deployment Technologies are deprecated and will be removed in a future release Java Applet and WebStart functionality, including the Applet API, The Java plug-in, the Java Applet Viewer, JNLP and Java Web Start including the javaws tool are all deprecated in JDK 9 and will be removed in a future release. … Read more

What is the difference between ‘java’, ‘javaw’, and ‘javaws’?

See Java tools documentation for: java command1/javaw command2 The java tool launches a Java application. It does this by starting a Java runtime environment, loading a specified class, and invoking that class’s main method. The javaw command is identical to java, except that with javaw there is no associated console window. Use javaw when you … Read more