JNLP file: not to create desktop shortcut

Question

In our webstart JNLP file, I have removed the shortcut and desktop tag, but when installing the webstart app, it still prompts me if I want to create a desktop shortcut.

So in the information tag it looks like this:

<information>
    <title>Dynamic Tree Demo</title>
    <vendor>Dynamic Team</vendor>
    <icon href="sometree-icon.jpg"/>
</information>

Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

Your best bet is to add query params to the href eg if the current value is the.jnlp , make it the.jnlp?a=b . The JWS client will presume it is generated dynamically and will generally not create a desktop shortcut.

I say 'generally' since it is really up to the JWS client & how it is configured.