Whats the best way to move my Web Start apps to a different server?
If you move your Web Start app to a different server (that is, different codebase in Web Start parlance), your users will likely end up ruminating why they now have two identical icons for your wonderful app on their desktop and how they differ. To help your user differentiate your apps hosted on the old server (e.g. cloud7.com) from your apps hosted on the new server (e.g cloud8.com), use a different title and description in your JNLP startup file (for example, use “Whack-A-Bill @ Cloud Seven ” and “Whack-A-Bill @ Cloud Eight” instead of just “Whack-A-Bill” for both.) Tell your users to fire off the Web Start Jukebox (that is, application manager in Web Start parlance) and delete your old tune from the playlist (that is, downloaded apps or favorite apps). Note, if you delete your app from the playlist, Web Start won’t clean up its cache and throw out the junk (that is, the now orphanded jars, icons, and so on), instead Web Start leaves the cache surgery up to you. Open up the hood (th
