Does WebStart share session, connection with the browser?

Question

Does WebStart plugin in he browser opens a separate http (or https) connection to download the jar (resource) files? or doe sit share, reuse the same connection already opened by the browser?
We are having a major problem cause all our jar files/ resources sit behind the web server and WebServer is protected by RSA Authentication.
A user normally authenticates them selves first ont he web server. All subsequent htp request form the browser is silently authenticated.
But when Webstart gets invoked it gets blocked when downloading resources cause WebServer does not let any unauthenticated call go through it to get to the resources.
This sounds like a very common problem everyone shoudl have, if WebStart uses a separate connection (separate from the browser) to download resources.
If resources are protected inside some server that throws a login challenge then WebStart cannot get to it.
How are other people in the industry solvign this problem?
Thank you.
-- Ashique
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Answer 1

Webstart does run in a seperate process, sometimes without a browser present. It donwloads all the listed resources using pure java calls, which, depending on the versions of java used, can handle various forms of web authentication.
What flavor of authentication are you trying to use ? (and in what version of Java, and of Java Web Start ?)
/Dietz