Can the application shortcut point to an actual URL instead of the cache

Hi,
I am pretty new to Webstart and am trying to figure out if the application shortcut can actually point to some URL like http://www.something.com/abc.jnlp
instead of pointing to some value in the cache. I would like to know if this is possible and if so how can I achieve this - also will doing this if possible always download all the application jars regardless of whether they have been cached or not. Any pointers will be highly appreciated.
thanks

The shortcut that JWS creates actually does point to your URL -- in a round about way.
When you first run the application it pulls down the jnlp and all the files for your application (jars, etc) and places them in the cache directory.
The shortcut points to the cache area where these files were downloaded to and the jnlp file is in here (somewhere - I have yet to figure out how the cache works). Your jnlp file has your root URL and JWS (if set in your jnlp) will always try to go to your URL and check if there are newer files.
Technically, there is no reason to have it point straight to your URL since it is in the cached jnlp file and it will check if it needs an update. One interesting side note is that sometimes the desktop shortcut created during application install just disappears. I'm not sure why and I don't think the Sun dev team can fix that since they recently add a "Create shortcut for application" button in the javaws application console.
One thing that we do for our customers is to simply create a web shortcut that point directlys to our servers jnlp (which is more or less what your are looking to do). You can't get JWS to do this for you -- it would be counter to the idea of being able to run the application locally, which would be needed if there is no network available.
If you do not want to have the user cache (install) the application then you might want to look at the JWS console settings -- maybe turn cache down to 0 -- but the shortcut will always point to a local jnp I think.
If anyone can comment on any of these details I would like to hear if I have this all 100% and any other details on these things
ref: [http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/javaws/index.html|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/javaws/index.html]

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