Jython and Java Web Start
I finally have a working Java Web Start application using Jython. I
have chopped it down to a relatively small demo so others may benefit.
A few notes - I don't use jythonc, I have had no luck with it. Instead
I put the .py files in a jar and include that with the webapp. I know
there is a performance hit vs compiled files but hey at
least it works!
You have to know a bit about Java Web Start and jar signing to use the
demo. I'm not going to try to explain that part.
The ugliest part of my solution is adding the JWS jar files to
sys.path. In some cases the local cached jar names don't end with
'.jar' which required some gross conniptions to work around.
More details are in the readme file and in the source. I hope someone
finds this useful!
Download the demo