JRE 1.5 and web start
We use two java products that work with JRE 1.4 but not 1.5. They are HP Remote Insight Board (RILO) and Appworx. In both cases the fault is the same: the browser (IE6 on XP SP2) starts to download the applet then silently fails. This is the point where normally it would test the applet signing. What seems to be happening is that the server is asking the Web Start client to start, but web start does not start. I notice that javaws.exe is in a different path in 1.5 and so is the user's cache.
I don't want to have multiple JRE's. It seems a major backward compatibility problem. Is there a workaround to make the apps work with 1.5?
Thanks