Saving & Desktop Icon

Hi,
I just started playing with webservers and jnlp/JWS for a beta project that I'm working on. I am on a Linux RH7 box, jdk 1.3 & running Apache (latest stable version). I can get the app to launch with out a problem but I can't get a desktop icon or a local save. I need this to work on Solaris/Windoz/RH boxes. Do I need to use Tomcat and write a servlet to do what I need? I don't have a 'war' file just a 'jnlp' file and the documentation isn't too clear on this. If someone can help me with what steps I'm missing. Here is my jnpl file...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<jnlp
spec="1.0+"
codebase="http://127.0.0.1/assets"
href="betaTool.jnlp">
<information>
<title>the betaTool</title>
<vendor>Prasara Technologies</vendor>
<homepage href="../index.html"/>
<description>GUI beta tool</description>
<description kind="short">gui</description>
<icon href="../icons/splash.gif"/>
<offline-allowed/>
</information>
<security>
<all-permissions/>
</security>
<resources>
<j2se version="1.3"/>
<jar href="betaTool.jar"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="Foo"/>
</jnlp>

Hmm.... since you've already installed Java Web Start, it must be on your hard drive somewhere... but I'm not sure where it goes on a *nix machine. On Win32 it's in program files\javawebstart... maybe it goes in /bin somewhere.
At any rate, once you find the executable for Java Web Start, run it and (if you're using XWindows) it should pop up a little GUI from which you can get to those menus I mentioned earlier.
The jar file is in your Java Web Start cache, so that sounds good... usually Java Web Start manages the cache's location and there's no need to modify it. At least I haven't had to yet.
Yours,
Tom

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I'm going to leave a comment in the bug.
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