Igor Kushnirskiy's Blog

Scenario Webstart Extension

Scenario version 0.5 is out. For the list of features and enhancements check out Hans's announcement here.

One of the things we have done for this and will do for future releases is to provide a webstart extension for Scenario binaries. Using the extension allows for simpler deployment for webstart enabled applications which use Scenario. Instead of hosting Scenario binaries on your website you can reference them using extension tag in resources section of you jnlp file. The extension for release 0.5 is available here: http://download.java.net/javadesktop/scenario/releases/0.5/Scenario-0.5.jnlp.

Take this demo for example: (Note: java 6 is required to run it)

Here is jnlp file for this demo:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <jnlp codebase="http://download.java.net/javadesktop/blogs/idk/02.08.2008" href="movie.jnlp">
  <information>
    <title>Countdown Film Demo</title>
    <vendor>Sun Microsystems, Inc.</vendor>
    <offline-allowed />
  </information>
  <resources>
     <j2se version="1.6+" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" />
     <extension name="Scenario-0.5" 
       href="http://download.java.net/javadesktop/scenario/releases/0.5/Scenario-0.5.jnlp"/>
     <jar href="movie.jar" />
  </resources>
  <application-desc main-class="demo.movie.Movie"/>
</jnlp>

Resources

The sources for the demo are available here or in the scenario-demos repository here.

Comments

• Scenario is really cool ! - Michael Knyazev

  Posted by: knyazevm on February 11, 2008 at 01:04 PM

• Hi Igor, sorry for posting randomly on your blog, but I found your name exploring the com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows source code.... :) I'm trying to support multi-sequence accelerators in JMenuItems while using the Windows look and feel. For example,

  File
  Open...           Ctrl+X Ctrl-F
  Save              Ctrl+X Ctrl+S
  Close             Ctrl+X Ctrl+K
  

  Previously, we were able to do this by supplying our own subclass of BasicMenuItemUI. Now, however, with all the special rendering for Vista, our subclass does not render the same as Sun's WindowsMenuItemUI. Can you think of a good way to accomplish this? We are really stuck! Thanks! Jared

  Posted by: jaredmac on March 20, 2008 at 07:44 AM

• Hi Jared , May I ask you to repost your question to http://forums.java.net/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=74 Thanks, Igor

  Posted by: idk on March 20, 2008 at 07:52 AM

• Done -- http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=38356 thanks.

  Posted by: jaredmac on March 20, 2008 at 07:59 AM

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