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Official Web Start Home @ Sun
http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/

Sun's Web Start Developer's Guide
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jws/developersguide/contents.html |
http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/1.2/docs/developersguide.html | http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/docs/developersguide.html

Sun's Packaging Web Start Apps into Web Archives (.war) Tech Paper
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jws/downloadservletguide.html |
http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/1.2/docs/downloadservletguide.html | http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/docs/downloadservletguide.html

Sun's Web Start Developer Pack
http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/download-jnlp.html

Sun's Web Start Sample App Pack (Includes Source)
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/releases/javawebstart/
Includes CORBA, extension installer, library installer, random access file and webpad examples.

What's New In 1.4.2? Web Start Release Notes
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jws/relnotes.html

What's New In 1.2? Web Start Release Notes
http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/1.2/docs/relnotes.html

Deploy an SWT application using Java Web Start
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-jws/
Jeff Gunther (Intalgent Technologies), June 2003, IBM developerWorks

Deploying Apps with Web Start: Going Beyond the Java Plug-In
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/jnlp/
John Zukowski (JZ Ventures), August 2002, Sun's Java Developer Connection (JDC)

Deploying Apps with Web Start: Moving on to Web Start 1.2: What's New, Different, and Improved
http://java.sun.com/features/2002/10/webstart.html
John Zukowski (JZ Ventures), October 2002, Sun Java Feature Story

JNLP and Java Web Start Tech Tips
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2001/tt0530.html
Stuart Halloway (DevelopMentor), May 2001, Sun's Java Developer Connection (JDC)

Java Web Start: Developing and distributing Java applications for the client side
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-webstart/
Steven Kim (IBM Tivoli), September 2001, IBM developerWorks

Java Web Start to the Rescue: Find out how Java Web Start aids client-side deployment
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2001/jw-0706-webstart.html
Raghavan N. Srinivas (Sun), July 2001, JavaWorld

Java Web Start and Code Signing
http://www.dallaway.com/acad/webstart/
Richard Dallaway, May 2002

Sun's JNLP Spec (JSR-56)
http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/56.jsp | http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/download-spec.html

Sun's JNLP API Reference
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jws/jnlp/ | http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/docs/javadoc/

JNLP Tag Reference
http://lopica.sourceforge.net/ref/ | http://lopica.sourceforge.net/ref.html
Javadoc-style framed JNLP tag reference sporting cherry-picked real-world examples; all-in-one-page version available as well; written by Gerald Bauer

Web Start Config Reference
http://lopica.sourceforge.net/conf.html
Hand-tune Web Start's configuration (jawaws.cfg); all config settings explained; written by Gerald Bauer

Operating System and Processor Architecture Collection
http://lopica.sourceforge.net/os.html

What's New in the Java Plug-In and Java Web Start?
http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/sf2003/conf/sessions/display-1486.en.jsp
JavaOne 2003, Devananda Jayaraman, Andrew Herrick, and Thomas Ng (Sun)

Web Start in the Trenches: Tips for Developing JNLP Applications
http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/sf2003/conf/sessions/display-2173.en.jsp
JavaOne 2003, Glenn Vanderburg (Delphi Consultant)

Web Start: Advanced Topics
http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/sf2002/conf/sessions/display-1591.en-85084.jsp
JavaOne 2002, Andrew Herrick and Steve Bohne (Sun)

Web Start: Advanced Topics
http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/conf/sessions/1318/23067-sf2001.jsp
JavaOne 2001, Rene Schmidt and Andy Herrick (Sun)

Web Start Overview: Java's Comeback on the Desktop
http://vamphq.com/talk/jug-jan-2002/slides.html
JUG Austria, January 2002, Gerald Bauer

Sun's Official Web Start FAQ
http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/faq.html
Personality-free answers from Sun.

Unofficial Web Start FAQ
http://lopica.sourceforge.net/faq.html
No details spared; available as a 90-page pdf booklet as well; edited by Gerald Bauer

Sun Web Start Forum @ java.sun.com (Uncensored)
http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=38
Ask newbie or troubleshooting questions at Sun's Developer Connection site

Sun Web Start Forum @ javadesktop.org (Censored)
http://www.javadesktop.org/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=45
Ask newbie or troubleshooting questions at Sun's Java Desktop site

Lopica Talk Mailing List (aka Advanced Web Start Discussion List)
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lopica-talk | http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=lopica-talk
Beyond the basics; mailing list about all things Web Start; especially for sharing insights, scripts, code snippets, extension installers, how-tos and other Web Start goodies. Please post newbie or troubleshooting questions in Sun's Web Start forums.

Sun's Bug Parade
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/

Web Start News Wire
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lopica-announce | http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=lopica-announce | http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.comp.java.jnlp.announce
Breaking Web Start News

The Saturn Times
http://lopica.sourceforge.net/times
Daily Web Start News From Around The Globe

NetX
http://jnlp.sourceforge.net/netx/
100 % Java JNLP client; includes extensive command line options; GNU Library General Public License (LGPL); spearheaded by Jon A. Maxwell

OpenJNLP
http://openjnlp.nanode.org
100 % Java JNLP client; GUI-less library available as well; Mozilla Public License; spearheaded by Kevin Herrboldt

Web Start Services
http://lopica.sourceforge.net/services
Suite of servlets and scripts to help you serve up Web Start apps and Java runtimes; spearheaded by Richard Osbaldeston

Apollo
http://ajax.sourceforge.net/apollo
Test Skeleton Toolkit for Java Web Start; Launch Web Start Apps Without Web Start; GNU General Public License (GPL); spearheaded by Gerald Bauer

Rachel
http://rachel.sourceforge.net
Resource Loading Toolkit for Java Web Start; Resource Loading Made Easy; GNU General Public License (GPL); spearheaded by Gerald Bauer

Up 2 Go
http://www.up2go.net
Top 10 List, User and Editor's Ratings, User Comments, Spotlight, New App Submission Form, And More

Open JNLP
http://openjnlp.nanode.org/app-list.html

Connect And Work
http://www.connectandwork.com/external

Puzzlecode
http://www.puzzlecode.com/puzzlecode/jnlp/index/
Categorized App Directory, New App Submission Form

Web Start @ Apple (Mac OS X)
http://developer.apple.com/java/javawebstart/

Sun's Web Start Source
http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/javawebstart/download.html

dmoz.org - Computers : Programming : Languages : Java : Development Tools : Deployment : Java Web Start and JNLP
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/../Deployment/Java_Web_Start_and_JNLP/
The Open Directory - the largest human-edited directory of the Web - sports a Web Start chapter. Twenty-two and counting.

Java Channel
http://pharos.inria.fr/Java/query.jsp?text=jnlp
A review database about Java resources (articles, tutorials, packages, dev. tools and so on) organized, commented, and evaluated by Java users.

Sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=jnlp
Open-Source Project Bonaza Creek; Dig For Nuggets

Freshmeat
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=jnlp&section=projects
Pick-Up Open-Source Projects At the Meat Market