FYI - JWS installer-desc UNinstaller never called

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:12:00 GMT

Message-ID:

<73a407c1a90e6@uwe>

Java web start (JWS) offers the installer-desc
element to identify an installer/uninstaller
for an application. The intent of the installer
is to do any application set-up/pull-down that
can not be handled by the standard JWS behaviour
of caching the classes/resources at 1st launch,
and clearing them at uninstall.

The 'install' side of the installer-desc element
seems to work as advertised, but as has been
noted in the web start forum a number of times*,
the installer is never called at time of 'uninstall'.

If you find this message in your search for
answers as to why your own uninstaller is not
working (or are just inherently interested),
please vote for the bug.
<http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6568950>

* I found references to this problem from around
five years ago, but nobody had bothered to raise
a bug report! Sun, in turn, astonished me by
acknowledging this as a bug within around 8
hours - I had vague memories of it taking much
longer. Good on'ya Sun! ( Let us hope that the
time required for a fix is equally astonishingly
brief ;)

--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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