Banichi Posted November 1, 2023 Posted November 1, 2023 I just updated my laptop that I'll be using for installs and I had a hell of a time figuring out getting the Java JRE installed and running so that the JNLP could launch. What I ran in to: The current JRE installer would not install on MacOS 13.6.1; Installer returned error: "OS error code 1". Installation of the current JDK was successful. However new versions of Java don't support the web start protocol so the JNLP would not launch. It took me a while to actually read the error message when launching the JNLP to realize that it didn't find a JRE that supported javaws. After all of that I came across OpenWebStart that promised to be my solution. After install I tried to launch again but still got the error. After digging through the documentation I found that I need to associate the .jnlp extension with the new app located in the Applications folder. After I did this OpenWebStart was able to download and install the correct JRE and launch IoX finder. Hope this helps others. 1
Banichi Posted November 6, 2023 Author Posted November 6, 2023 After some fighting with this install due to some OpenWebStart proxy errors I went back to my original jre 8 installers and they magically worked this time around. I uninstalled OpenWebStart and installed the regular jre and now working well. I dropped the start.jnlp file in my applications folder, changed the default Java Icon to the UD logo, and then changed the name so it looks like a regular application.
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