Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

I have an application that is being distributed by webstart over a large distributed network. The obvious reason for doing this is to avoid all the normal application distribution problems. This way the initial application distribution and any normal application upgrades can be managed very easily.

Except - I am having problems attempting to distribute the JMF multimedia package. I cannot determine a method of distributing it and getting it to work under webstart without the user being required to install and configure JMF. The JMF package is being used to capture employee photos.

I can get it to work by installing and configuring the JMF package on each individual computer but this defeats the reason I am using webstart.

The other problem is that the network includes several slow links and the individual computers do not have internet access.

I am using the jmf-2_1_1e-windows-i586.exe package.

I have tried including the jmf.jar and attempted any other suggestions I have located - all unsuccessful.

I have searched the forums and tried google and have not come up with a method to accomplish what I need.

I have seen responses on the forums that suggest people have got it to work.

Can anyone who has managed to make this work point the way?

Thanks
rykk