Chapter 10. Defining the Client Environment

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • Application Basics

  • Resources

  • Security

  • Summary

In Chapter 2, “An Abstract Model for Deployment,” we saw that an important part of the deployment process is what we called the resolution phase. Within this phase, the quality of the client environment definition is crucial to the quality of the overall deployment process. As we will see, JNLP covers just a part of all the possible properties for a client environment. The rest is up to the developer.

In Chapter 9, “The JNLP Protocol,” we discussed the protocol from a top-down perspective, illustrating extension and application descriptors. It is now time to examine the other three elements of the JNLP file, as shown in Figure 9.1: describing ...

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