[cap-talk] Google TechTalk lecture series, HP--Fix Java Web Start

[Mark S. Miller]

John Carlson wrote:
> One nice thing I like about javaws is I can pass it a URL as an
> argument, and it will download the XML file at the URL.   Can you
> point capLauncher at a URL containing E code, and it will launch it?
> I'll look into it.

I don't believe the current capletLauncher does this itself, but the 
DarpaBrowser does demonstrate downloading a caplet from a URL and launching it 
with no dangerous authority.

I'd guess the capletLauncher could easily be modified to do this directly, if 
desired.

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     --MarkM