Bug#266522: java-package: Include javaws mime type and handler.

Julian Gilbey jdg at polya.uklinux.net
Sat Feb 4 19:21:44 UTC 2006


On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:41:53AM -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> Package: java-package
> Version: 0.12
> Severity: normal
> 
> Sun's Java JRE and SDK provides jre/javaws/javaws. This is for Java Web 
> Start applications. To be properly set up, it should be associated with 
> .jnlp files. The mime type is application/x-java-jnlp-file. This should 
> probably be done using the shared-mime-info system.

Presumably would just require a file such as
/usr/lib/mime/packages/sun-j2re1.5 with one line:

application/x-java-jnlp-file; /usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/bin/javaws %s

and then update-mime in the postinst and postrm.

   Julian




More information about the pkg-java-maintainers mailing list