Web-Start Question

Hi all,
I am invoking my application by using Web start in JDK1.4, it throws the following exceptions and it is working fine with jdk1.3. Herewith I have included all trace outs which was thrown in logs.
General Tab:-
An error occurred while launching/running the application.
Category: Download Error
Unable to load resource:
http:/sachin:9090/../classes/NmsClientClasses.jar
Launch File Tab:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<jnlp codebase="http://sachin:9090" href="conf/WebNMS.jnlp">
<information>
<title>WMS</title>
<vendor>Commuzzt Inc.</vendor>
<homepage href="help/index.html"/>
<description>WMS version1.3 - Web Start Client</description>
<icon href="images/icon.jpg"/>
<offline-allowed/>
</information>
<resources>
<j2se version="1.4+" initial-heap-size="100M" max-heap-size="200M"/>
<jar href="../classes/NmsClientClasses.jar"/>
</resources>
<application-desc
main-class="WMSClient">
<argument>localhost</argument>
<argument>9090</argument>
</application-desc>
</jnlp>
Exception Tab:-
JNLPException[category: Download Error : Exception: java.io.IOException:
Unable to create temp. file for:
http://sachin:9090/../classes/NmsClientClasses.jar : LaunchDesc: null ]
at
com.sun.javaws.cache.DownloadProtocol$RetrieveAction.actionDownload(Unknown
Source)
at com.sun.javaws.cache.DownloadProtocol.doDownload(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.cache.DownloadProtocol.getResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadJarFiles(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadEagerorAll(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.downloadResources(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
Wrapped Exception Tab:-
java.io.IOException: Unable to create temp. file for:
http://sachin:9090/../classes/NmsClientClasses.jar
at com.sun.javaws.cache.DiskCache.getTempCacheFile(Unknown Source)
at
com.sun.javaws.cache.DownloadProtocol$RetrieveAction.actionDownload(Unknown
Source)
at com.sun.javaws.cache.DownloadProtocol.doDownload(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.cache.DownloadProtocol.getResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadJarFiles(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadEagerorAll(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.downloadResources(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
Kindly help me,
Thanks,
Best Regards,
NMS

java.io.IOException: Unable to create temp. file for:http://sachin:9090/../classes/NmsClientClasses.jar
This is the problem you have to work on. Sorry I don't know the solution, or even whether the problem exists on the server or the client, but that's the root cause of the exception.

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2-Install Firefox and run the application
Results were:
For 1: The application does not crash, apparently IE7 has a newer version of Jscript.dll that, in Microsoft words, handles better 'bad software', refering to 'bad software' to the java virtual machine I guess. Looking at the performance manager you can see memory goes down as with IE6, but at some point memory is released and the app. does not crash. Anyway is still is uncertain to me why Jscript.dll is getting involved at all. Although this solves the problem is not a viable solution for us, because I work in a corporation where changes such as upgrading the IE version on a large number of desktop can not be justified just because one app. is crashing, and it would take a long validation time anyway before the upgrade can proceed.
For 2: I did install Firefox in a machine and the application still crashed, but it is true I did not uninstall IE6, so the conflictive Jscript.dll was still sitting at system32. Quite possibly the crash would not happen if that dll wasn't there at all.
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Jes�s

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