[ubuntu-us-mi] Using javaws to launch a remote viewer on Ubuntu 10.04

[Robert Citek]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
> You apparently don't update often as that change occurred several
> months ago.   Oracle was prohibiting redistribution so OpenJDK had to
> be used when security problems in Sun Java required an update.  This
> update also caused problems for my clients due to OpenJDK
> incompatibilities and broken proxy support.  I had to manually install
> the updated Sun Java.

More accurately, I was aware of the issue from another laptop that I
had upgraded and, not having the time to figure out a solution at that
time, put all java packages on hold on my netbook.  It wasn't a great
solution, but worked.  The alternative was to not have remote console
access to production servers, and that was unacceptable.

>From what I gather, the issue in this case is that the JNLP file is
not "signed".  Since I'd prefer to use OpenJDK than Sun's Java, if
possible, does anyone know of a way to tell OpenJDK that it's ok to
accept an unsigned jar file?  I have been Googling but nothing yet
pops up.

Regards,
- Robert