Excellent guide! ____________________

Finally, I have successfully created a Webstart application, all thanks to this. But I've got a few suggestions for improvement:

Although you do say that everything needs to be in a JAR, it's not obvious that you need to bundle up all the .dylib and .so and .dll files into their own respective JARs. I originally tried to link to them directly using the nativelib tag.

Maybe have instructions on how to make a shell script for the key signer? If you want, here they are (for Linux and OS X):
– Create a text file and paste jarsigner -keystore myKeyStore -storepass myPassword -keypass myNamePassword *.jar myName into it. Name the file something like JarSigner and give it a .sh extension. With the command line, navigate to the file, then type chmod +x JarSigner.sh , which will make it executable. Now you should be able to run it via the command line. However, make sure your keypass file is in the same directory. It will automatically sign any .jar files that are in the same folder (although seems to freeze if you do too many at once).

You say to create a JNLP XML file, which makes it slightly confusing whether the extension should be .XML or .JNLP. I originally tried with .XML, not realizing that I was creating the actual .JNLP file.

Otherwise I don't think I had any issues (aside from successfully creating a JAR correctly), and the guide was a godsend.