File associations / sandboxed app.

http://www.1point1c.org/spacesim/spacesim.jnlp
Points to the launch file for a sandboxed
application (<150 Kb download) that claims
(OK suggests) file associations for two
file types '.sss' (space simulation scenarios)
& '.sso' (space simulation options).
( There are ways to export/create these file types,
but you can get the default '.sss' file here
http://www.1point1c.org/spacesim/spacesim-data.zip )
By claiming the file assocation, the Space Simulator
needs to provide '-open fileName' functionality in the
main(), which it does.
But there is a quirky aspect to it when running
in Java 1.5 - if the user double clicks a '.sss' file,
- they are asked ny the plug-in if they want to
proceed - with the offer to
|_| Do not show this advisory again- The user selects that and clicks 'Yes' (open)
- The GUI appears with the file selected.
..But! JWS does not remember that the user
selected always allow, and asks them again
(& again, & again..)
Do you want to allow this action?Is that defined behaviour for a sandboxed
application?
Do the full privileges applications behave
differently (i.e. remember when the user
selects always allow)?
Is it just my system/Java version,
(I'm running Win XP Pro, Java 1.5.0_09)
does it work on other combinations?

...I'm prompted with a dialog to allow the app to
read the file and I click allow always.
I then get a file chooser where I have to select the
file again. I see that as a separate problem.
Again - I do not know if it is intended behaviour,
but it makes no sense to force the user to identify
the file a second time.
...Is that part of the app or a webstart
problem? Incidently, clicking cancel on this file
chooser puts the app in a state where I need to kill
it.Oops! Sorry, I had been meaning to fix that.
...But I think the always allow means that
webstart will allow the app to open and read the file
as many times as the app needs too during the
execution of the app, not on subsequent
invocations.At first I was sceptical, but a few further tests*
seem to support what you are saying.
* Using the menus within the application that
also open files, after selecting 'remember
my decision', at first file 'double-click open', I
did not get further prompts, though usually
I do.
My investigations are continuing, but here it is
partly complicated by getting different versions
of web-start depending upon whether I double
click the desktop launch icon (1.6), or an
associated file (1.5) - the advisory dialogs
seems different as well.
Thanks, I think you have effectively answered
my question, but I'll mull it over some more..

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On 7/1/2014 11:16 AM, chndrcks wrote:
>
> We often use application virtualization for larger apps that would take
> too long to install via msi. We put those large virtual apps on a
> network share and users launch them from there rather than installing
> them locally. It's worked well for us, but we miss out on some features,
> like file associations, context menus, etc. We could get most of these
> features back if created in msi in ZAV when we create the virtual app,
> but the msi always installs the virtual app to Program Files, which
> defeats the purpose for us.
>
> So my question: Is there a way we can create an MSI that behaves just
> like the one generated by ZAV, but rather than installing the .exe to
> Program Files and pointing everything there, it instead does not install
> the exe at all and just points everything to the already existing exe on
> the shared drive?
>
> We tend to be a bit of a unique use case, but I was hoping someone else
> had run into a similar problem.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
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