Running Webstart on Linux

A few people, (myself included) were confused about how to run web start files, specially through the browser.

When firefox prompts you for running jnlp files simply point it to your java_installation_dir/bin/javaws executable. :) It's that easy! :)

On the command line run:

javaws jnlp_url

eg.

javaws http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorialJWS/uiswing/components/ex6//TreeDemo.jnlp

You can test it out here.