Hi Andre, The best way to do that at first sight may be: * reply to this thread with the associated JIRA you created (I saw one from you already) * test the snapshot when patches get applied before releasing * ask for a release
As Tony already answered, I guess he'll be able to review those JIRAs. Cheers 2014-03-10 16:55 GMT+01:00 Waloszek, Andre <andre.walos...@zetcom.com>: > Hi, > > we had some requirements that are not yet covered by the > webstart-maven-plugin. Unfortunately I had to apply them quite fast, so I > applied the changes to the code and we have an own version of the plugin > now. > > The main requirements were the following: > > 1. Be able to supply the download=„progress“ attribute to a dependency > in the plugin configuration. The solution we used is quite straight forward > and not very robust. We simply add a new parameter „download“ to the > jarResource configuration part. > 2. Apply a workaround for a Java Web Start Issue. This is an issue > that first came up with 7u45. There was a security warning about a missing > permissions attribute in a manifest although all jar manifest files were > absolutely correct. This was also added to the known bugs in 7u45. > Unfortunately Oracle did not fix with 7u51. I found a discussion here > https://community.oracle.com/thread/2594060?start=0&tstart=0 with a > workaround. It basically consists of two parts. One has to add one jar file > that is not versioned (feature already available in plugin) and you have to > remove the main=„true“ from all jars in the jnlp file. The second thing was > not possible with the plugin. One jar has to be the main one. I checked the > JNLP specification and found no place where this main=„true“ attribute was > said to be mandatory, so we removed that code. The main class can also be > applied to the application-desc tag. > > I would be very happy if there is a way to bring these changes to the > webstart-maven-plugin, so that we do not have to maintain an own version. > With this email I would like to ask about any requirements concerning those > changes (tests for example) and maybe how I can contribute the changes that > we did. > > Best regards > André > -- Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net Sauvez un arbre, Mangez un castor !
