Passing arguments on a jnlp file

Question

Is it possible to pass maven-like arguments on a JNLP file?

   <jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="${javafxCodebase}" href="Foo.jnlp">
   <information>
      <title>${javafxTitle}</title>
      <vendor>${javafxVendor}</vendor>
       ...
   </information>
   ... 
   </jnlp>

And if so, who will pass these data to the jnlp file? What comes to mind is:

   http://localhost:8080/Foo.jnlp?javafxCodebase=bar&javafxTitle=baz

Answer 1

There is no support for this out of the box with Java Webstart. There is a JNLP Download Servlet but it only supports a limited set of macros and cannot have any that are user defined.

I think your best approach would be to use a templating engine like Velocity to write your own servlet for generating the JNLP file on the fly and populating it with your required arguments.

Answer 2

You can also try the php script on this website .

I found it useful to automatically detect my codebase url, since I had a requirement to deploy the jnlp files on different servers.