Learn how to build a small, bare-bones application built on the Eclipse Framework and deploy it through Java™ Web Start (JWS) — a technology you can use to deploy Java applications easily over standard Internet sites, enabling easy upgrades and distribution.

In this tutorial

This tutorial shows how to build an application based on the Eclipse Platform and how to deploy that application with JWS. This is not to be confused with building a Rich Client Platform (RCP) application using the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) in Eclipse and using JWS to distribute it.

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with Eclipse and the Java programming language. Knowledge of XML will be helpful when reading the XML examples.

System requirements

To run the samples, you must have Eclipse V3.3 or later installed and running. You will also need to have Java V1.5 or later. To run the JWS example, you need access to a running Web server and the ability to add a MIME-type association to the Web server, if it's not already properly configured. Ideally, you should have a local development Web server you can use for testing.

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