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Bug 449 - Fiji-stable.jnlp won't launch in Mac OS, WIndows 7, j3dcore.jar is unsigned
Fiji-stable.jnlp won't launch in Mac OS, WIndows 7, j3dcore.jar is unsigned
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Website
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Wiki
unspecified
All All
: P2 major
Assigned To: ImageJ Bugs Mailing List
http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/webstart/Fi...
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-07-13 22:16 CDT by Bill Christens-Barry
Modified: 2015-04-06 15:51 CDT
1 user (show)

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Description Bill Christens-Barry 2012-07-13 22:16:07 CDT 
The Fiji Java Webstart stable version, linked to on the page at:

  http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/Downloads

fails during launch.

After the app is downloaded by the browser, and after the user allows the application "Fiji via Web Start" to launch, a dialog appears indicating "Unable to launch the application", which is again identified as "Fiji via Web Start". Clicking the dialog "Details" button produces a further explanatory dialog that contains this text:

   Found unsigned entry in resource:
      Error: http://download.java.net/media/java3d/webstart/release/j3d/1.5.2/j3dcore.jar

and some more information in "Launch File" and "Exception" tabs.

The same behavior occurs if the Fiji-stable.jnlp file is manually launched in the OS by the user.

Apparently Oracle no longer signs this jar (http://www.java.net/forum/topic/javadesktop/java-desktop-technologies/java-3d/unsigned-entry-j3dcorejar#comment-818570).

This behavior was observed on Mac OS 10.7.4 and Windows 7 using various browsers and where other jnlps successfully run.
Comment 1 Johannes Schindelin 2013-07-07 09:51:53 CDT 
For the moment, WebStart is unsupported. This will only change if there is enough demand to warrant the immense effort required to reinstate it.