Webstart fails to start - java loading then nothing
843802Mar 21 2007 — edited Mar 26 2007I have encountered a weird problem with Java Webstart lately, something that has begun to occur more frequently and in different jre versions (1.4.2, 1.5 and 1.6)!
Basically about one in every four times we access the jnlp for our app webstart will start (javaws process appears for a second, then javaw process), we confirm the "Trust this website" dialog and then nothing happens! Java loading appears but it never seems to load the java console or attempt to download the jar file.
I have found lots of people experiencing similar things on these forums but none of their solutions have worked and it is beginning to grate with some of our users!
The jar file is currently 3MB and we specify java 1.5+ in the jnlp.
The javaws process appears in TaskManager with about 32MB memory footprint but uses no CPU and is for all intents and purposes dead.
As webstart never initialises the java console there is no trace and the trace files from javaws are empty despite full logging and trace being enabled through java application control.
We access the jnlp via https andf it is dynamically created by servlet.
Does anybody have any ideas / experiences of this?