Auto download JRE

Hello,
One of the described features of webstart is the auto-download of the specified JRE (if not yet installed)
I want to place the JRE on my local server to prevent downloads from the Sun site when the JRE is not yet installed on the client PC.
How can I do this ?
Thanks for the info,
Piet

As I said in previous response, the complete jre installer source is included in the JDK/samples directory.
You cannot use the standard tag: href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" alone, because this directs java web start where to download the jre from.
if you wan to accept either a jre downloaded from sun, or one loaded from your company server, but want only to force autodownload only from your companies server you would need to list multiple j2se elements:
<j2se version="1.4.2*" href="http://yourcompany.com/products/autodl/j2se">
<j2se version="1.4.2*" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se">
then if either are there it will use it, otherwise it will try to download from the first one.
It sounds more like most people want a local client configuration, that says where to download jre from when the standard href (href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se") is given.
there is the config entry: deployment.javaws.installURL , but that won't do what you want. (that will cause platform version specifications (those w/o href) to download from it's value, but it will also set that value in the location field of jre's discovered on the system (as on windows thru the registry), which will cause a non-match on jnlp files specifying sun product version (ie: with href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se")
What we really need is a configuration parameter that means "alternative download url" so that anyone requesting either a product version, or a platform version with the href equal to the value of the property deployment.javaws.installURL, will go to the alternative url to attempt the download.
I'll file such an RFE for the next version.
/Dietz

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