webstart fun
Every now and then, I’m playing with Java Webstart and getting paid for this. The idea is cool, the implementation is bad. Support for HTTPS as the protocol used for hosting the application was apparently included only in late versions (well, at least java 1.4) and it is still broken at times. Using an invalid SSL certificate (where the host does not match the name in the certificate) will yield a modal security dialog box. For each included jar file. And every now and then (more now than then, in fact), again, some kind of race condition will appear where the user is unable to confirm any of those dialog box. bleh
And Sun’s bug database is bugged at best.