Icetea javaws does not use cached files

[Jan Lolling]

Icetea does not use cached files. The application will always be download all times the application starts. The directory .icetea/cache contains all downloaded jaras but ignores them.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Aere Greenway (aere)]

My JNLP file is set for the application to run offline, and creates a desktop launcher.

It works fine if I have Internet access, but if there is no Internet access, javaws reports an error, saying it can't read or parse the JNLP file (which is in cache).

I have tried setting <update check="background" policy="prompt-update"/>

But that had no effect. Check="timeout" also had no effect.

The only way I can get it to work is to add the "-noupdate" option to the desktop launcher.

I do not have this problem on either Mac OS X, or Windows. Windows never updates, but Mac OS X works the way the documentation says it should, namely, if it can't check to see if the cached version is the latest version, it runs it offline.

Adding -noupdate to the desktop launcher is a nightmare to document, because of how different the method of doing it can be from distribution to distribution.