File associations: filename not passed in args with JWS on OS X?

Hi -- I have a working JWS-deployed app, which sets up a file association for a specific MIME type. Double-clicking a file with the specified extension works fine on win32, with args[0] being set to -open, and args[1] to the file path to open.
But on OS X, J2SE 5.0, although the JWS app starts, the args[] array is empty (and hence I have no way to know what datafile was double-clicked to start the app, and hence to open it!). Is this a known problem on OS X? I can't find any reference to this issue anywhere. This is on a MacPro Intel box, haven't tried on another Mac yet, but I assume this is a general issue? JWS is version 11.4.2.
Thanks for any tips... D

...on OS X, J2SE 5.0, although the JWS app
starts, the args[] array is empty I cannot immediately answer your question, I have my
own thread going, asking questions about JWS handling
of file associations for a sandboxed application.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=38&threadID=785224
As it is, I would appreciate a test result for OS X.
Does my app. also break on OS X under 1.5?
(you might need to see it 'work' under win to
answer that - it is quite quirky).
OTOH, the strategy I take with the sandboxed application,
might be the one to follow for OS X if you cannot get the
second argument.
Open a file chooser, pointing at "user.dir" (in the vague
hope that points in the right direction) and explain to
the user that between them double clicking the file,
and 'now' (about 20 ms. later, on most systems) the
information was 'lost'.

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