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How to keep Java updates from breaking web start shortcuts?

jlanawaltAug 31 2015 — edited Aug 31 2015

I just took the 1.80_60 update. It was a nice smooth process, didn't even try to sneak in a 3rd party app, but once again my Java Web Start application shortcuts broke.

Problem with Shortcut

The item 'javaws.exe' that this shortcut refers to has been

changed or moved, so this shortcut will no longer work properly.

Do you want to delete this shortcut?

The shortcuts pointed to jre1.8.0_51\bin\javaws.exe which no longer exists. I now have jre1.8.0_60\bin\javaws.exe. This happens with most, if not all, security updates lately, not just with major Java version changes. It seems like things use to point into Windows\System32 and those files would be updated. Most of the time that worked in my use case, barring trouble with a 32 or 64 bit shortcut. Then C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath appeared and I had great hopes for that, but not long after the Java Web Start shortcuts stopped using that when created and pointed to the versioned path that gets replaced with each security update.

How do you deploy a JWS app that uses JNLP created shortcuts on Windows that don't break with each Java update?

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